If so, you can easily correct this by going to fusion’s menu bar, control option M. Open the virtual machine menu. Open the usb menu. press enter on the option which says connect usb printer port or words to that efect. It will vary by make and model of cable most likely.
You’ll then here the standard windows found new hardware sound. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:11 AM, Roland Zitzke <[email protected]> wrote: > 100% agree! > I use VMWare Fusion myself running windows 7 and I am working with unusual > USB devices quite a lot. I have never come accross a single device which > failed to connect to the VM. > As silly as it may sound: Does the dialog come up which let's you chose where > to connect the device to, MAC or VM? > It has a checkbox letting you remember your choice, did you by chance make > the wrong selection persistent? > /Roland > > Am Sonntag, 23. November 2014 06:49:34 UTC+1 schrieb eburggraaf: > No, that isn’t right. You may have an incompatible cable, but it shouldn’t > matter whther you run fusion or bootcamp. In fact, you can run bootcamp > particians as virtual machines. > > I’ve found virtualization to be a very convenient excuse for people who don’t > know systems besides windows. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > > > > On Nov 22, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Juliette Swiler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, according to tech support from Enabling Technologies, the only way it >> will work is if I uninstall Windows and Fusion, and reinstall it using boot >> camp. The tech support says the embosser will only work in boot camp. This >> is really disappointing, and a major flaw of using fusion. >>> On Nov 22, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Roland Zitzke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, these USB to parallel adapters are actually printer port adapters. This >>> means that they connect a centronics printer to your USB host. They do not >>> - and they can not - simulate all aspoects of a parallel interface. a >>> classical parallel interface allows for port level IO which is simply not >>> possible via USB. >>> A printer port - sometimes referred to as centronics port - only uses a >>> subset of these features. >>> Therefore, your embosser might simply rely on features not supported with >>> the USB printer port class. >>> /Roland >>> >>> Am Samstag, 22. November 2014 16:40:39 UTC+1 schrieb Juliette Swiler: >>> Left a message yesterday for support at Enabling Technologies. Haven’t >>> heard back from them yet. May have to try calling support at Duxbury >>> Systems though. >>>> On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> Some of these adapters work and some don't, while embossers made before a >>>> certain date won't work on 7 no matter what cable you have. Don't be shy >>>> to call support. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my android device. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Juliette Swiler <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 2:42 PM >>>> Subject: running Embosser with Duxbury on my Mac >>>> >>>> I am running a Mac Book Air with Windows 7 Professional and trying to get >>>> an Enabling Technologies embosser to work properly with Duxbury. I can’t >>>> seem to get the computer and embosser to communicate with each other >>>> properly. I am trying to use a USB to parallel port cable since the Mac >>>> does not have a parallel port. I am assuming I am going to have to call >>>> tech support at Enabling to get some help with this. Any ideas would be >>>> greatly appreciated. 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