My Canon Multipass SmartBase MPC200 printer was bought when i had windows xp on my old computer. I have just bought a new laptop that has wimdows 7 installed. I need a driver to re-install it
I bought a MG5450 2 days ago and began setting it up yesterday however stumbled across an issue where the printer driver would not install regardless of the compatibility setting. Being as it's a newly released printer I thought the drivers would be up to date and new, however I think there may be a issue with NT 4.0 driver policy as when I try to install the drivers through the device manager, it gives me that message that there's a policy in place stopping me.
Windows update always fails when trying to install the printer, however the scanner, and software included all work fine. I can scan images on wirelessly and have them saved on my computer without an issue, however there is no way to print. I have tried disabling the policing through the 'MSC' and adding a local group policy or something along those lines. However none of this has worked. How can I get the driver to install or disable the policy to allow the printer to be installed. Tried installation of the drivers both through wireless and wired, both come to the same outcome.
I have a canon printer (couple years old) and a Brothers printers connected to a computer with Vista 32bit. I just purchased a laptop that has windows 7 64bit. I can connect via wireless network to my Vista computer just fine. I was able to connect to and install the brother printer but when I try to install the canon printer I get a message something like this "Cant find INI file, will look in windows update" after a while it comes back and says It can find INI file. Probably it is because my Vista is 32 bit and my laptop Windows 7 64bit. But I did not have this problem with my brother printer. How do I install the canon printer?
I am running Windows 7 Pro x64. It detected up my Canon iP2600 printer and installed a Microsoft generic driver, but color photo prints are bad. So I went to Canon's web site, downloaded the Windows 7 x64 driver and ran the installer. It appears to have installed OK, but I wanted to verify the driver source and version.
To my surprise, when I opened the Properties sheet of the printer, I did not find the usual dialog box giving the option to update the printer, rollback, etc. I've looked in Device Manager, Devices and Printers, etc and do not see a dialog box for managing printer drivers.
Generally speaking, how does one install a new printer driver, or roll back to a previous driver?
I have a home network setup with 4 computers - 3 working computers and the 4th serving as a file server. One of these 3 working computers is a new one - i7, 920 with 6 Gb DDR3 1333 RAM and runs Windows XP Professional 64 bit OS (to be shortly replaced with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit OS - once I get my disc from Microsoft). All the other PC's run 32 bit Windows XP Professioal SP 3.
I have connected a Canon i560 to one of the working computers running 32 bit Windows XP Professional for a specific reason. Installation this printer as a sharetd printer on this computer was no problem using the accompanying CD. I am able to install the driver for this printer 2 of the other computers running 32 bit Windows XP Professional and hence I am able to print on this printer from any of those printers. So far so good.
The problem however is that when I try and install this printer on my new computer, it says that the driver is not compatible. I search the net for a 64 bit driver, and I did find one for Vista (its a zip file - 20mb) and it unzips and installs the Canon Easy Photo Print utility but I cannot (or do not know) how to use this as the driver for this printer.
Does anyone know how can I get this shared Canon i560 printer to be connected to this new PC of mine running 64 bit Windows XP Professional (soon to be replaced with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit OS)? The concern is that if I am having difficutly finding a driver for Windows XP Professiona 64 bit for this printer, can I expect the same difficulty in finding a driver for Windows 7 Professiona 64 bit for this printer too?
P.S. Surprisingly, I am able to connect to my new computer an even older Canon LBP660 printer locally connected to my file server computer using its driver for Windows 2000! Could physical distance be an issue?