The Printing tab page allows you to configure printing options.
Technology
In the Technology drop-down menu, select the technology to use when redirecting printers to a remote computer:
None. Printers will not be redirected.
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 menu:
All. All printers on the client side will be redirected.
Default only. Only your Mac's default printer will be redirected.
Specific only. Select the printers to redirect in the provided list. The list becomes enabled for selection only if you select this option.
Microsoft Basic Printing Redirection
Click the Configure button (enabled if Microsoft Basic Printing is selected above) and configure the following options:
Select Destination. Select a destination printer.
Driver. Specify the printer driver to use.
Open PDF in Preview. Opens a PDF document when previewing the material being printed.
Default printer settings
To configure default printer settings, click the Change Default Printer settings button.
The default printer list shows the available printers that are ready to 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, as described in the Technology section above. 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 <default local printer>. When <custom printer> is selected, you can specify a custom printer on the remote computer if one exists. 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 might differ from the original printer name. Also note that local printers might not be redirected due to server settings or policies.
Printing to a PDF file
Parallels Client for Mac gives you the ability to print to a PDF file. For that, a special option "Print to PDF for %user% by Parallels" is added to the standard Print dialog. When you choose this option, the document will be converted to PDF on the server side and then sent to Parallels Client for printing.
