VMWARE Fusion and Printing
My wife uses Windows on her Mac. It's a virtual machine running well
and she can switch from Windows to OS X easily, and does. The
university where she works requires Windows for some of what she does,
but the Mac is so much better built, in our experience. She has done
well with this for quite awhile.
Recently, however, if
she printed something in Windows, the printer would not work for
programs on the Mac. If she printed something from the Mac, the printer
would not connect in Windows. I found a workaround (Go to "Virtual
Machine" up on the menu bar, scroll down to "USB and Bluetooth" and
either connect or disconnect the printer to which you want to print.)
Painful. Mountain Lion did not help. Oh, well. I think it might have started happening when VMWARE upgraded her Fusion 4.
Anyway,
VMWARE helped me by installing Bonjour, and making the printer for
Windows a Bonjour Printer. All of a sudden she can switch from Windows
to Mac, printing seamlessly from either. You have to be a geek or a
tech to get there, but she isn't and doesn't want the hassle. She just
wants it to work.
If you have that issue, try Bonjour. It worked for us.
Leave a comment if you have another solution, or something to add.
December 3, 2012 at 7:20 AM
I am also having the same problem. Whenever, I do something in Mac, some images and copies do not show when transferred to the Windows OS. I worked my way around it by doing all of my artwork in Mac and all my copies in Windows. That has worked for me so far, since Mac is really ideal for Adobe Photoshop as Windows is ideal for Excel and Word documents. However, the problem is when you need the images and copies to be rolled into one for printing. I guess I have the answer with that problem though with the help of Bonjour. Thanks for sharing about it. :)
Roselia Mangione