Printing over VPN xp thru vista

Hi,
I have a VPN connection from my home to my office. I have an XP machine at the office with programs that I need to run from home. I remote desktop into the xp machine at the office over the VPN. I need to print documents at home from the xp machine at the office.
I have a wireless network at home with an HP printer connected to the router. I have 2 laptops at home, 1 runs xp and the other runs vista. Both laptops can print fine locally. Both laptops can romote into the office computer and run it fine.
The xp machine at the office will print to the printer at home fine thru the xp laptop over the VPN.
When using the vista laptop over the VPN to the office the home shows up and print jobs seem to go fine. .....EXCEPT...... only part of document prints. It may only print the first line or it may cut off the last few lines. It will print the "test page" with no problem.

Does anyone have an idea of what I am missing????

HELP!!!!

I doubt the VPN has anything to do with it. Partial document rendering problems of that nature are almost always caused by print drivers. Have you tried updating the driver(s) on all those machines?

Thank you, I believe I have the latest drivers installed but I will confirm it. My initial thought was that it is a compatibility issue between XP & Vista.

HI,
Well,,,,, I confirmed that both the XP and Vista systems have the latest HP print drivers and I am still only getting partial printouts when printing thru the Vista laptop. Any other suggestions for me to look at?
thanx in advance.
Jim

jim54 said:

HI,
Well,,,,, I confirmed that both the XP and Vista systems have the latest HP print drivers and I am still only getting partial printouts when printing thru the Vista laptop. Any other suggestions for me to look at?
thanx in advance.
Jim

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You may wish to test what happens when you install and share a second logical instance of the printer using the (simplistic but reliable) "generic/text-only" printer driver. If you get full (but ugly) printouts that way, obviously the HP printer drivers and/or monitors are somehow linked to the problem.

My guess is that the Vista box has a (non-default) printer monitor which is somehow interfering.

What I can't see happening - at present - is some sort of VPN breakdown which always happens to kick in precisely a little ways into a printed document. Printing is too high at the app layer for the network link to be impacted that way. It's not impossible (nothing is impossible with software!), but I believe it's highly unlikely.