My wife has a Senate issued mac and has the same vpn printing problem.

Her IT dept absolutely refuses to let the vpn down in any way for local network printing. IT also refused to let her install a driver for roundabout internet printing. I looked into adding a secondary networking device via usb, but that was locked out. And she can't attach a usb flash drive, either.

As best as I could figure, it was either email the docs to another computer or connect a USB printer. We have a b/w laser printer on USB for her mac, and networked for everyone else.

-jk