Can't print from Win 7 Pro Virtual PC

[Pierre]

Purchased Dell 1764 Inspiron laptop with Win 7 Home Premium - upgraded to Win
7 Professional in order to get XP mode as my Lexmark C500 colour laser
printer is not supported by Lexmark which means they do not have a driver for
my C500 which is not supported.

Was able to install the printer and driver on the Virtual PC. Can do a
print preview, able to see printer configuration but when I try to print
something, the printing is sent to the printer but nothing is printed.

Help!

 

[DickGrier]

This is a programming newsgroup, not a general forum.

However, have you set the Virtual PC Settings (Settings menu at the top of
the VPC window) to map your physical PC hardware to a printer port on the
VPC? This should work if you have connected the printer to the printer
(LPT) port. Otherwise, you may have to install something like
http://www.usb-over-network.com/, which may allow you to host a USB printer
on the PC via the host service that would run under Windows 7, while the
client service would be installed on the VPC.

Dick

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