1. Xerox Generic Print Driver Mac

I was just about to post that I'd found the solution to the printing problem (after spending many hours fighting to get a printer to work), but it looks like someone beat me to it! If you look under Mac Help, there's a topic on Sharing your printer with Windows users. This is where they recommend using the installing the Bonjour Printer Wizard in Windows - I tried it and it worked beautifully. (Note: Bonjour uses the Generic/Postscript printer driver - apparently this is part of the key to getting the printer to work, as opposed to installing your own printer driver.) The help file also gives an alternative method of printer sharing using SMB/CFIS (I have no idea what that is), which also indicates that you need to use the Postscript printer driver to get the printer to work with Windows.

You can download Bonjour for Windows at Apparently this is not a problem with the Parallels software itself, but a standard Mac/Windows printer sharing thing (since Mac Help addresses it). I do agree that this should be in the Parallels documentation though, since that would save new users countless hours of frustration! BTW, my printer is an HP Deskjet 5550. I could never get it working as a local printer in Parallels. I think at one time I did have it working as a network printer (after turning on Print Sharing on the Mac side), but then it stopped working (would say it was printing when it wasn't) and couldn't find the fix until I tried using Bonjour.

Bonjour immediately fixed the problem! Interesting - Bonjour automatically selected the Generic/Postscript driver for mine.

Perhaps that's because Windows doesn't have my printer on their list. According to the Mac Help file, you should use the Postscript printer driver even if the printer isn't a Postscript printer. They go on to say 'Your Mac translates the Postscript code into code the printer can understand.'

I'm guessing that was the problem I was having, since the printer would start and would say it was printing the document, but nothing ever happened on the printer end. I'm glad we both got our issues resolved - makes Parallels a lot more functional now! (Interestingly enough, when I pull up a printer list within a program, it identifies my printer as an HP 4050. I just printed a document that had bullet points in it - some of them printed correctly while others printed out as 'C' instead of a bullet.

Will have to investigate that issue, but everything else printed correctly.). I'm still having problem printing from Parallels. Printer, Epson CX6600 attached to desktop mac with printer sharing on. Home network via router. Parallels on MacBook Pro, latest release, set up with Windows XP SP2, used Bonjour Printer wizard to set-up the printer as generic/postscript. BBEdit files print ok from MBP. Any windows print jobs are quickly stopped on the mac with the printer, viewed using printer utility.

Mac to Mac printing seems to be stopped by having vpn active on the desktop mac, It isn't active on the desktop mac, don't know about windows. What am I missing, thanks, David. Being able to print to a Networked printer is OK. If you can set up a USB printer to be shared off of another device/computer then great.

But what about those that DO need to print to a local USB printer? Parallels GM, WinXP SP2. I'm trying to Print to a Canon Pixma IP5000. I have installed Apple's Bonjour and set the Printer to Be a Generic/Poscript using the Bonjour Wizard. Here is the Delema. The Bonjour wizard Driver Used by default for this printer it the 'HP Colour Laserjet 4550 PS'. And when printing the Win Test Print page - all the Black is printed Blue.

We have also installed the Canon IP5000 Drivers, but when selecting the Canon IP5000 Driver instead of the HP driver (Printer Properites Advanced page) we cannot print at all and get print errors. Where are automatic backups quicken deluxe for mac 2017. What else to do? Parallels GM, WinXP SP2.

Xerox Generic Print Driver Mac

I'm trying to Print to a Canon Pixma IP5000. I have installed Apple's Bonjour and set the Printer to Be a Generic/Poscript using the Bonjour Wizard. Here is the Delema. The Bonjour wizard Driver Used by default for this printer it the 'HP Colour Laserjet 4550 PS'.

And when printing the Win Test Print page - all the Black is printed Blue. We have also installed the Canon IP5000 Drivers, but when selecting the Canon IP5000 Driver instead of the HP driver (Printer Properites Advanced page) we cannot print at all and get print errors. What else to do? Click to expand.OSX Prints to the Printer OK. Canon Drivers installed under OSX. Boss has been printing to this printer for 6 months. It is only under Parallels running WinXP and Bonjour that the Canon IP5000 printer will not configure correctly.

Printer was set up using Bonjour Wizard and under properties is set up to print to a Bonjour Port. The selected driver is an issue for this printer. Selecting HP Colour Laserjer 4550 PS driver it prints wrong colours. Selecting the Canon IP5000 Driver and the whole propertiers page changes to include Canon Properties, but all attampts to print fail.

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