"... Just remove the device, and go with a more traditional means of printing."

But as I understand it, if you have 'full' VM encryption and a TPM, then you can't edit the .vmx file without decrypting the VM. And to do that you would need to throw away the TPM information.

Is that correct?

I'm currently using the TPM, and the full VM was encrypted in order to have the TPM in the first place.

It would likely be a major pain to decrypt 500 GB, and try to rework whatever is dependent on the current TPM values to get everything working again, and then re-encrypt the same 500 GB.

Or can you just remove the 'printer' from the hardware list?