Printer can be found in bootcamp but not in VM Fusion

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*** IGNORE *** Managed to fix it.. Just changed the network from NAT to bridged and it connected fine.




Hey everyone,

Having some printer trouble with VM fusion.

I run windows xp for work and if I use bootcamp everything works fine.. I Installed VM Fusion about a week ago and at first the printer worked fine..

We use a HP Wireless printer server at the office so we can all connect to the officejet, as of 3 days ago my laptop stopped connecting to the printer through the wireless server and when you ask the server to search for a printer to connect to, it cannot find one..

I've tried connecting directly with the USB cable but the printer is just shown as offline. I've tried clicking "use online", but if you try to print, the print job fails.

When using bootcamp everything works fine.

I should also add that the printer software and drivers are only installed on windows and not on the mac drive, I'm not sure if this will have any affect?

For now I can just use bootcamp, however using VM Fusion is so much more convenient, so if anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
 
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