I'd like to revive this thread to see if there has been any improvement since last August. At that time, etung wrote in the "Fusion 1.0 install for Windows XP Pro: Printer Installation" thread ...
"The thing to remember with USB devices in general is that only one OS can talk to them at a time (or they would get very confused). If you want to print in the guest, you should plug the printer into your Mac and make sure it's connected to the guest (via the device icons or the menu). If you want to print on the host, disconnect the printer from the guest (via the device icons or the menu), this happens automatically when the guest is off."
As I make more use of printing in Windows XP, it's increasingly annoying to have to connect and disconnect my printer as my printing shifts between Mac OS X and Windows. It seems that every time I want to print, the printer is connected to the other operating system.
Is this the best there is on the printing front?
Although I'm very happy to be running WinXP on my Mac, the current printing hassle brings up memories of the ease with which my Brother laser printer happily interleaved Mac OS X printing (via USB) and Windows printing (via the parallel port). Printing is the only reason I regret retiring my Dell PC.
