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kkhrom
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Problem printing to UBS printer, 64-bit Linux host, Win XP guest

Hi,

I am running vmware player 2.5.1 on 64-bin scientific linux 5.2 (which is actually RHEL 5.2 recompiled from sources) kernel 2.6.18 as a Host OS. My guest OS is Windows XP Professional 32 bit.

Printer Canon MF5730. Guest OS recognized it, displayed found new hardware message and installed windows drivers. Up to that moment everything went smoothly. Then I decided to print a test page, and just nothing happened, no error messages and no printed page.

Thanks in advance

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kkhrom
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Hi, everybody

I don't know why this happens, but I think I have found a way to make my Canon MF 5730 print from the virtual Machine. This device is not just a printer, but a scanner as well. I tried scanning and it worked perfectly.

After scanning I tried printing again and it worked ! It works until I reboot my virtual machine, after which I have to scan something again. Seems like an initialization problem or something like this. Still trying to figure out how to make it print without scanning.

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