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Hopefully someone will be able to solve my dilemma. I have been a long time VB user and the forums have always helped me solve my problems without ever needing to post... but, now I have not found anything on this.

I have a network capable HP Photosmart 3210 connected to the LAN side of my wireless router.

I am running OpenSUSE 11.0 x64 with KDE 4.1.3 as my host OS.

I am using VirtualBox 2.1 and running Vista Business SP1 as guest.

I have had my printer installed via TCP/IP using the native Vista HP driver. This has been working fine, albeit slower (because of NAT) than I would have liked. I was using this same VDI with VB 2.0.6. I am using the Intel PRO/1000 MT (desktop) and configured for NAT.

I did a clean install of VB 2.1 and set up the VM with the same parameters as previously. And, before you ask, I did reinstall guest additions.

However, now when I print, the information does not print on a full page... it seems to be broken up. Even when I print the test page (because I have tried deleting and reinstalling the printer) the test page comes out on 4 pages.

Anyone else having problems printing to their network printer after switching to VB 2.1?

Any help or alternatives would be appreciated.

This could be the cause of the new NAT engine. You have two options: use the new HIF feature that is implemented in 2.1.0, so your VM becomes part of the network; or you can downgrade to 2.0.6 (hopefully, you have a backup of the xml files) and wait for the most errors to be fixed.

Sasquatch, as usual, you have saved another one.

Switching to HIF worked. I just hope that the lack of IPv6 will not affect some other programs. Did NAT even use IPv6?

Thank you very much.... I appreciate the help.

NAT did not use IPv6, but I always was able to use IPv6 when in HIF. Haven't tested this with the new method though.

I too am experiencing a similiar issue. I am getting PCL errors, while printing to an HP jet direct printer. Host based networking is not fixing the issue either.

gaving wrote:I too am experiencing a similiar issue. I am getting PCL errors, while printing to an HP jet direct printer. Host based networking is not fixing the issue either.

You get a single page that only says "PCL Error"? If so, that means that you use the wrong driver. I know this, because we had this error with printing from a Citrix enviroment to HP laser printers connected to a printserver (either HP JetDirect or Linksys).

I don't know the type of printer you use, but for a normal Laserprinter, you can try the HP Laserprinter PCL6 or PCL5 driver. Try the PCL5 first.

Sasquatch wrote:

gaving wrote:I too am experiencing a similiar issue. I am getting PCL errors, while printing to an HP jet direct printer. Host based networking is not fixing the issue either.

You get a single page that only says "PCL Error"? If so, that means that you use the wrong driver. I know this, because we had this error with printing from a Citrix enviroment to HP laser printers connected to a printserver (either HP JetDirect or Linksys).

I don't know the type of printer you use, but for a normal Laserprinter, you can try the HP Laserprinter PCL6 or PCL5 driver. Try the PCL5 first.

This is not the issue. This started exactly after my upgrade to 2.1.0. I havent changed the driver. Sometimes it will print the first page fine, and then bomb on the rest of the print job. I have uninstalled, and reinstalled the driver a few times with the same result.

Do you use NAT or HIF? It seems that the data that is send to the printserver gets mangled on the way from the Guest to the server.

I too was/am having a similar problem. It prints maybe half the test page then a PCL error.
It happens with both Windows XP and Vista running in a VirtualBox using NAT on Ubuntu 9.04 printing to an HP3600N using the built in jetdirect print server. If I use the Host Interface instead of NAT it works just fine, so I agree the data gets mangled going through the NAT.

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