The data transfer between RIP software and printer driver is through ethernet so it should have work. Using 32 bit Windows is quite limiting, it doesn't see above 3.5 Gb of memory, so we tried to run the PCI card in VM, leaving the RIP and design software (most memory demanding) to run in Windows 64 bit.
It has only 32bit drivers, since they've dropped support and changed data transfer to USB in their latest printers. We have a printer that uses a fiber optic PCI card for data transfer. So while some modes are nice, they don't always play nice with the program in question. While Seamless mode in VirtualBox does not. For instance, my digitizing program (which doesn't support running their programs in VMs period, as most software vendors don't that have stable software out there, alpha and beta software is something else, but since this is a legacy program, probably don't have official support anyway) does mention that running Parallels in Coherence mode does produce problems. One thing to be aware of though, is some programs don't work to well in some modes. Virtual PC only had windowed or full screen mode (what I actually use for VirtualBox on LInux, but I also have multiple monitors, so I'm not sacrificing screen real estate), so I don't imagine that Hyper-V would have their version of seamless, but I don't know. Parallels (which I believe is only a Mac solution) call it Coherence.
I can't speak for Hyper-V as that is a Win 10 VM solution and I just refuse to go to Win 10 unless it is just absolutely necessary, but most 3rd party VM solutions have an option like VMWare, they just call it something different.
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