Printing

The Printing tab page allows you to configure printing options.

In the Technology drop-down list, select the technology to use when redirecting printers to a remote computer:

• None . No printer redirection will be used.
• RAS Universal Printing technology . Select this option if you want to use RAS Universal Printing technology.
• Microsoft Basic Printing Redirection technology . Select this option if you want to use Microsoft Basic printing technology.
• RAS Universal Printing and Microsoft Basic redirection technologies. Select this option to use both Parallels RAS and Microsoft technologies.

RAS Universal Printing

If you selected RAS Universal Printing technology , select printers to redirect in the Redirect Printers drop-down list:

• All . All printers on the client side will be redirected.
• Default only . Only the default printer will be redirected.
• Specific only . Select the printers to redirect from the provided list. The list becomes enabled only if you select this option.

In the Choose Format drop-down list, select a data format for printing:

• Print Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe PDF. This option does NOT require you to install any local applications capable of printing a PDF document. All the necessary libraries are already installed together with Parallels Client.
• View PDF with external application . To use this option you must have a local application installed which is capable of viewing a PDF document. Note that not all applications are supported. For example, the built-in PDF viewer in Windows is not supported, so you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader (or a similar application) installed.
• Print PDF with external application . This option works similar to the View PDF option above. It also requires an application capable of printing a PDF document installed locally.
• Enhanced Meta File (EMF). Use vector format and embedded fonts.
• Bitmap (BMP). Bitmap images.

In the Client Printer Preferences section, select one of the following:

• Use server preferences for all printers . If this option is selected, a generic printer preferences dialog will be shown when a user clicks Print in a remote application. The dialog has only a minimal set of options that they can choose.
• Use client preferences for all printers . With this option selected, a local printer preferences dialog will open when a user clicks Print in an application. The dialog will contain a full set of options for a particular printer that the user has installed on their local computer. If they have more than one printer installed, a native preferences dialog will open for any particular printer that they choose to print to.
• Use client preferences for the following printers . This option works similar to the Use client preferences for all printers option (above), but allows users to select which printers should use it. If a printer is not selected, it will use the generic printer preferences dialog, similar to the first option in this list.

Default printer settings

To configure default printer settings, click the Change Default Printer settings button.

The default printer list shows printers that can be redirected by the client to the remote computer. The list also includes the printing technology that the available printers will use. The technology reflects the setting selected in the Technology section. For example, if the technology was set to RAS Universal Printing technology , only the printers using RAS Universal Printing will be listed.

To disable the default printer, select <none> . To redirect the default local printer on the client side to the remote computer, select <defaultlocalprinter> . When <custom printer> is selected, you can specify a custom printer which might be installed on the remote computer. The first printer that matches the printer name inserted in the custom text box, will be set as the default printer on the remote computer.

Select Match exact printer name to match the name exactly as inserted in the custom text box. Please note that the remote printer name may be different than the original printer name. Also note that local printers may not redirect due to server settings or policies.

You can specify the time a printer will be forced as default. If the default printer is changed during this time after the connection is established, the printer is reset as default.

Select the Update the remote default printer if the local default printer is changed option to change the remote default printer automatically when the local default printer is changed. Please note that the new printer must have been previously redirected.