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Setting up a Fuji Xerox USB printer driver in Windows 7 in VirtualBox
I want to setup a USB printer in Windows 7 in VirtualBox since there is no driver available for Ubuntu. I have installed the VirtualBox Extension that allows USB support. I added a "USB Filter" specific to the printer, rather than the "wildcard" type of USB filter.
My printer is a Fuji Xerox P205 b, purchased in January 2012. Since this is one of those low cost printers that relies on a Windows driver to do the processing, I will need to install the proprietary driver.
In Control Panel > Devices and Printers
I can see my device labeled DocuPrint P205b beneath an incorrect icon (that looks like a small nondescript appliance) presumably because the proprietary driver has not yet been installed.
I can right click the icon and select Properties and then the Hardware tab.
I can see the default driver is USB Printing Support, which I suppose is the default Microsoft driver.
In the Hardware tab I can click Properties and the dialog becomes USB Printing Support Properties, appropriately. In this USB Printing Support Properties dialog, the Driver tab has the Update Driver control is greyed out so it seems this is a dead end. On the General tab, there is a Change Settings control that I can click and when I do click it, the dialog is still titled USB Printing Support Properties but when I switch to the Driver tab, this time it is a little different. This Driver tab is the only place I've found that reveals an Update Driver control that is not greyed out. Using the Update Driver control, I can choose to browse to the folder that contains the .INF file that is part of the driver.
At that point I can click Next to proceed and then unfortunately, I am then presented a dialog that says:
How can I install this driver?The best driver software for your device is already installed.
Windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date.
USB Printing Support.
The Fuji Xerox driver has been successfully installed in the past on a standalone Windows 7, possibly using the same or similar procedure. It wasn't easy but in VirtualBox it seems to have become almost impossible.