I`ve been attempting to print from the D&D Character Builder to a local printer. A 4-page, 20MB document printed to the Parallels Tools-installed HP Color LaserJet 8500 PS takes 11 minutes to be passed from Windows to the local queue. It takes almost no time to be put into the Windows queue, and almost no time to print from once it hits the Mac queue, but takes almost 3 minutes per page to transition. At this rate, it is faster (although more work) to print to CutePDF on Windows (very fast) and manually open it on the Mac side and print. I have created a PDF test file. It creates a 2.5MB print job in the Windows queue. It takes about 3 minutes in the Windows Queue before it appears in the Adobe PDF 8.0 queue, printing from Acrobat Reader 9.0. In both cases, while the job is transitioning between the Windows queue and the Mac queue, Parallels takes up one core of my dual-core CPU (Macbook Air). I've got a support ticket open on this (695718) but I've been going back and forth so long on this that I'm beginning to wonder what the expected behavior should be?
