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What’s the specs of your Mac? It’s not worth doing if your Mac is low specs and with small hard drive space.
Otherwise, it’s easy, you just need to buy a window license.
We usually do 50/50 petitions, but you can do less on the window side if you printing ID card is the only thing you need.
Alternatively, I’d probably consider buying the cheapest possible PC computer for printing your cards. A friend got her laptop for £150 and she was sort of happy with it.
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I’d probably consider buying the cheapest possible PC computer for printing your cards.
This.
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@ExTra It's a relatively newish MacBook Pro with 500gb Hd space. I've 300GB empty as we just use Dropbox for all our files, and I have it set to online only.
I was just going to do 50gb for the partition as if I need to use a PC I do it through a VDI environment. It's just that VMWare doesn't seem to want to access devices connected to my Mac, otherwise, I'd be doing that. And I've just found out that I can't add a printer to the VDI, as I don't have Admin privileges.
And @SuperSalad I did contemplate getting a Win10 Laptop, but it's a Bank Holiday weekend, and I need this to start printing asap. I've no idea where I can get one tomorrow morning, and get it working.
Overall, this has been a nightmare. I thought it would be easy to print, and it couldn't be more difficult or fiddly.
salad
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I have a bit of a problem, which I'm hoping the hive mind here might help.
I've an ID Card printer (Zebra ZXP Series 7) which I need to print to really quickly. And a lot. Unfortunately, Zebra don't have an OSX driver for their wonderful printer. My MacBook Pro can see it through USB, and knows it's a Zebra ZXP Series 7, but if I try to print through the Generic Postscript Printer it doesn't do anything. When trying to search for drivers, I get the message "unable to send data to printer" which is quite understandable since they don't have a driver.
My next step is to put Bootcamp onto my laptop to put Windows on and try this. My question is, will it work? And how hard is it to put Bootcamp onto my laptop. The issues are: a) I don't have the ability to back up my computer. b) how much HD space do I need for the partition c) Can I just download MS Windows from Microsoft and use that? d) is it difficult, as I've never done it before?