Leopard, WM Fusion and Brother Printer

Hi all,
I am a totally new MAC convert. I have a brand new IMAC (Which is great) but I have to have to run Windows Office (Excel & Word) . I opted to run WM Fusion with a Windows Vista virtual machine. Every thing works fine except that I cannot get my Brother Laser Printer to work in both the Virtual machine and MAC environments.
Suggestions would be very gratefully received.

VMware is a hardware emulator software that emulates all the hardware devices from your mac computer to make it like your desired os.
1. Just make sure that your vmware tools are all installed and enabled.
2. Also make sure that you have all the security updates downloaded. (ofcourse make
sure your going to use a license cd key of your os to be able to do that)
3. Click on Virtual Machine tab, go to settings, click on usb and make sure
that enable usb 2.0 support and automatically connect usb devices are checked.
4. Download and install a win vista driver for your printer's support site,
if ever your printer is incompatible with win vista, then that may be the issue
why it isn't working.
My Epson Stylus rx595 works like a charm by doing that, both the epson scan and the printer withtout
any conflict on my mac computer. It may sound a lot of work but it really pays
off.

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