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When you send a job to a printer not on your office network from inside VMWare or another VPN, you may not see all of the options which should be available in the properties for the printer.
Apply the settings for the printer on the local computer on which you are running VMWare. The selections should carry over to the VMWare instance and you'll be able to print jobs from the VPN with settings not available in the properties displayed for the printer within in the VPN.
Keep in mind that many printers will only automatically print out on both sides of a page, if a separate duplexer is installed. This is the case with the widely used HP 600. The specs for a printer may state that it prints double-sided, but it may not do this automatically. The user may be required to re-feed the pages one by one.
The duplexer for the HP 600 will slide effortlessly in to the rear of the printer without the need to connect any cables, or tighten any screws. Beware of the fact that an ordinary power cord with a straight head can't be used with the duplexer. You'll need a cord with a right angle head like this one:
A standard power cord will prevent you from sliding the duplexer fully into position.
When printing PDFs it's possible to experience a postscript error. (Postscript is a page description language that allows for on the fly rasterization which interprets text and images as straight lines and curves.) The first several pages of the print-out may appear normal, but the document can be cut off at the end with missing pages and a final blank page with an odd message at the top left:
ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: &-2~
STACK:
When a got this error message at the end of a PDF print-out today (the PDF itself worked normally) I was able to fix this problem and print the full hard copy by accessing the advanced settings for the printer. Disabling the setting for "PostScript Pass through" (on a Konica Minolta 558) did the trick.
