Printing using parallels desktop

hi. i have a photo printer, fujifilm QS-7. unfortunately it is ONLY compatible with windows xp, even though the driver for it has installed on my mac and shows as active.
i have come to a work around where i have installed xp using parallels and it works great if i print from xp.
however, i would like to know if i could click print on my mac and it would automatically print using xp, saving me time going into xp itself ad clicking print???

Hi Ian,
Apple BootCamp allows you to install Windows on its own partition on your internal harddisk.
It does not allow installation of Windows on external HDs.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
BootCamp lets you run Windows natively (using the real hardware) whereas Parallels virtualizes certain hardware parts (like Ethernet controller, graphics card, etc.).
Therefor BootCamp Windows is always faster than a Parallels Windows and so better suited for Games or 3D-CAD software.
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Downside of BootCamp is that you have to reboot your Mac to use Windows whereas with Parallels you can run it alongside OSX.
While the Parallels application has to reside on your internal harddisk, you can point the WIndows VM to reside on your external harddisk.
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