How do I get my local printer to work while using a remote desktop?

I have 7 home premium of my laptop and am networked with VPN to 7 ulimate and I cannot get my local printer to work. My IT guy suggested that I get an HP 2305 instead of my wireless HP Envy but neither one will print. In the remote connection box I have printers checked. If I print to the Envy it will print the work after I logout of the remote session. Any suggestions would be great. I am snowed in and can't get any work done.

Can you print using a wired connection? Also, you need to set up printer sharing for both computers. Is there aa special reason why \you are using a VPN, such as working from home to a remote location (ie. office). Windows 7 is very good with multiple versions of itself and using one machine as a host for printing. Your IT person should be able to get this done.
As an example: I have 5 machines running 2 versions of Windows 7. They can all print to my main computer's printer because I have fully enabled File and Printer sharing and the drivers auto install during the setup process (after putting them on the main machine that is hard-wired to the printer. This would hold true for a setup using a wireless printer as well.

Let us know if this idea works.

I am using the VPN to work from home. The drivers are installed on the computer at the office as well as on my laptop. When I am using the remote session the printer comes up as (redirected) and it won't let me change any settings. Do I need to have the driver installed on the network drive instead on just on the hard drive of the computer I am logged in to? The redirected printer properties do not have the print permission checked but I can't seam to access it to change the setting. The printer that I can't get to work is hard wired to my laptop, I can print to any of the printers at the office, which doesn't help. When I am not in remote session the printer works fine.

Sorry I should clarify. I have a laptop and printer at my house. I use VPN to login to my office so I can work from home. When I am logged in I can send print jobs to the printers at the office but not to the one at home. I don't get any error message it just doesn't print. If I am not logged in to the office and am running Word etc I can print on my home printer with no issues. It is only when using the VPN that I have problems.

Might I suggest that you save the document locally and then print it on the home printer. That or you need to reconfigure the VPN to give permission. I think you understand that a VPN is a tunnel into a host system and there are rules set by the administrators. Hope this sheds a little light and a test as well.