10.6, Parallels 5, Windows 7 (64), Bonjour and Printing

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i am having trouble getting Bonjour (1.06)(64) set up so i may print from Windows 7 in parallels to a USB printer attached to my mac mini.
The parallels documentation tells to select the Generic printer and the Generic Postscript.
Bonjour "sees" the printer, however, i am not able to select a Generic Postscript.
suggestions?

The purpose of selecting generic postscript is to make windows send postscript to the Mac side, which then sends the right codes to the printer.
Are you able to select any model/driver? If so, just find a postscript printer model (like HP Laserjets) and use that.

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I recently upgraded my to windows 8 to 8.1 now when I print to my HP Officejet Pro 8600 it intermittantly leaves text out.
An example I can print a school test and it might print the some questions and some answer choices or omit the question but print the answer choices or only part of a question. It isn't consistant about what doesn't print or where it prints. My husband has windows vista and has not encountered any problems, so I'm thinking it is from the windows upgrade. Any thoughts.
Thanks in advance.
Jo

Hi jojomulherin,
Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience!
I read your post and see that since upgrading to Window 8.1 the full text document isn't printing.
I will be happy to help you.
If you haven't already, I would uninstall and reinstall the printer software which should resolve this issue.
Uninstalling HP Printer Drivers in Windows 8.
HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer - N911a Drivers. Select the operating system and click next.
Click on Driver - Product Installation Software and download the drivers. Select the Full Feature Software and Driver.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for posting on the HP Forums.
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Windows 7 32-bit and accessing printer properties

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2008 Standard R2 server with its port configured to the share name on the PC.
When printing a file from, say, Notepad on the server, the job goes on to the queue, but the printer shows as “Needs troubleshooting” and the job doesn’t print. Restarting the server’s
Print Spooler server service makes it print.
The same printer is also installed as a local printer on another server that’s running under Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and printing from there works fine.
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I’ve tried to access the printer’s configuration on the Windows 7 PC to look at its “SNMP Status Enabled” setting, but get “An error occurred during port configuration. This operation is
not supported”.
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Hi,
When did this issue happen? Did it work fine previously? Is the printer shown as online or offline?
Regarding to "SNMP Status Enabled", some printing issues can be caused by this option, you can find more infromation in the link below
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775439(v=ws.10).aspx
and the discussion:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/0cfa31d7-b44b-4241-aa31-d0ae9f0a2112/windows-7-network-printers-offline?forum=w7itpronetworking
This update has fixed some printer performance issue, I suggest you install this update and check if it can make any difference
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647753
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Bonjour Weird Printing Issue Windows

I have windows xp ruuning inside of parallels on a powerbook. I'm Running bonjour on the windows side so I can print to my lexmark printer which is hooked up to my G4 desktop via USB.
When I print from my laptop wirlessly from my laptop on the mac side...no problem. When I print from windows side, it talks to the printer ( the lights come on) but nothing prints. Here's the weird part. If I open text editor on the mac side ( you can switch back and forth between mac and windows) and print some basic text, the printer works, then if I immediately try and print a word document from within windows it prints ?
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This is a workaround, but not veru user friendly.

Hi,
Could you please send the test document to shilpi at adobe dot com for us to investigate the issue at our end?
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-Shilpi

How do i get win 8.1. *pro* for mac parallels, deauthorizing win 8.1 pro and license rules for windows vms

ok, i've seen this question asked a number of times. i know the general procedure:
- first download some installer things to a window box so i can make a bootable DVD / flash drive
- go the mac and use the DVD / usb stick to install the virtual machine
great.. BUT :
1) unfortunately, i'm still really confused at the most basic part which is where (link) do i actually get the initial download thing to create the 8.1 *PRO* from microsoft and where (link) / how do i pay for the subscription key to install the thing????
i keep seeing a link for windows 8 or windows 8.1 where windows PRO is NEVER mentioned. i ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE a) PRO 64 bit and NOT vanilla windows and b) it MUST BE A FULL INSTALL (i'm not upgrading from windows 7, 8 or 8.1 NON pro.. i'm going
to be installing this thing on a brand new system.
i'm an IT guy for two decades and i can tell you trying to find, download, install a clean version of windows 8.1 PRO is a royal pita and nothing about windows 8.1 PRO is intuitive on the MS site. it's almost as if they do NOT want you to install the
thing. i'm not trying to bust jewels here, i'm just being honest and providing feedback that you folks need to make this much more clear and intuitive. people really shouldN'T have to post on forums to find out how to purchase, download and enter
in a subscription key for a base version of an OS. it's crazy.
2) once i can figure out how to download, install and register the darn thing ;)... i'm curious how the licensing works.
2a) first if my windows 8.1 pro experiment on mac parallels sucks, i want to be able to remove the authorization so i can reinstall 8.1 pro on another system.   can i / how do i do this in my scenario?
2b) i actually already bought windows pro 8.1 about a year ago (to upgrade a laptop that came with 8 that i needed to upgrade to vanilla 8.1 then to finally to pro) so that i could windows phone 8.1 development with simulator on the laptop. unfortunately
the laptop maxed out at 4G and the performance of the emulator was ridiculously slow that it's unusable. i'd love to somehow be able to put the laptop back to windows *vanilla* 8.1 and reclaim my 8.1 pro that i *already* purchased by removing the authorization
from that laptop allowing me to reinstall the full 8.1 pro with the same key on the mac with parallels. then i can sell the laptop that has sat there collecting dust for a year and regain my windows 8.1 pro investment vs having to buy another copy for
the mac.
i have no idea how to do this though i think it should be possible. can anybody tell me where / how i do this?
note the win pro 8.1 install never went well so i actually had some guy from MS login to my laptop remotely and do the install.. in doing so i believe he wiped away the original windows vanilla 8.1 recovery partition asus put on the drive meaning i'm not
sure i can get the laptop back to 8.1 or 8 vanilla so i can resell it functionally to another person while removing my 8.1 *pro* license from it.   any suggestions here highly welcome.
2c) once i get the windows 8.1 pro installed in a vm under parallels, i'll have one licensed copy running. my guess is that is what i'm limited to. but when you start working with VMs the whole purpose is to be able to create multiple test
enviornments and dispose of them when you don't need them etc.   since the window will be tied to the single mac hw id, will i be able to install multiple *win* vms (duping an exising win vm for instance) from the one license or must i purchase
multiple win licenses for each win vm on the SAME system?   if you need a new license for each vm, wouldn't i have to do a FULL WINDOWS INSTALL every time i wanted to create another windows VM.. THAT IS CRAZILY INEFFICIENT...
there has to be some kind of option to dup a windows licensed vm on the SAME system yes? what are the rules / procedures for making this work.
i'm using parallels on mac as an example but the same question would apply to using hyperV (which i know nothing about at this point) as the virtual host platform as well.
i'm open to well thought out links that actually answer these questions succinctly in addition to comments here
thanks in advance

Hello bigbobber,
If you have issue in using Windows 8.1 Pro in the software parallels in MAC?
About this issue, it is recommended to contact the related parallels support.
About the license issue, please read the following article about Buyer’s Guide and Microsoft software license agreement windows 8.1.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/windows8-1.aspx
It is recommended to contact the phone support if you have license issue.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
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TS4123 This is not correct solution. I have fresh copy of Windows 7 64 bit and I have the same problem. Autorun only shows the Bonjour service. It started when try to sync more than one iphone.

This is not correct solution. I have fresh/new copy of Windows 7 64 bit and I have the same problem.
Autorun only shows the Apple Bonjour service. It started when try to sync more than one iphone over WiFi. I have two iphones and an iPad. I turned off syncing over WiFi and still has high CPU utilization. One of the CPU's is pegged at 100%. It is the AppleMobileDeviceService.exe process.

For the record, I then followed the suggestion of MarcDCMB in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4291206 of just manually restarting the Apple Mobile Device service in Windows services.msc once each time after starting iTunes and the service no longer hogs CPU after that service restart. Not too painful as a work-around, and apparently an effective one, but clearly not a solution to the problem. Again, as above, all the other solutions didn't work for me and I have no conflicting software as far as I can tell. So you'd have to say this Apple's problem.
Also FTR, I am still on the 5.2.0.6 version of the Apple Mobile Device Support MSI and I don't know if that is relevant to this work-around working but my sense is that it is NOT relevant. I'll report back on this thread if I re-upgrade and the problem returns in spite of the service-restart approach.

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