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Setting Up Printing via LPT Port of Real Computer

Before setting up printing using this method make sure that:

To setup printing through a parallel port of your physical computer:

  1. Open the virtual machine configuration in configuration editor, make sure that the configuration includes a parallel port, if necessary add it.
  2. Open the Parallels Port Options, make sure that the Enabled and the Connect at startup options are selected.
  3. Specify the way of emulating the parallel port in the Emulation group.

    If your computer runs Windows primary OS, we recommend to select the Use printer method (it is not available in Linux primary OSes). The Printers list displays list of printers available in the primary OS. Specify which of them you want to use.

    In virtual machine under Linux primary OS select the Use port option and then specify the real port of your physical computer to which the printer is connected in the LPT-port list.

  4. Save the virtual machine configuration (see Saving Virtual Machine Configuration) and start the guest operating system.
  5. Install the driver for your printer in the guest OS. We recommend that you use the native driver.