Wired printers must be attached with any windows device like desktop or laptop with the help of a USB cable, whereas a wireless one would require access to your network or you can connect it using a Wi-Fi router.
To connect your canon Pixma printer to a laptop, you must first know its model and then installs the driver for it on your windows laptop.
How To Connect Canon Pixma Printer to Laptop
- First of all, you have to insert the CD into your device that came along with your printer and runs the setup.
- If no CD comes along with your product, you can download the manuals and software driver from http://canon.com/ijsetup
- Install the file by double-clicking
- Select "Wireless LAN Connection" as a connection method, and then click Next
- Select "Setting printer could not be found on the list" and click Next.
- After the Setup Guide Installation, click on "Cableless setup".
- Open the Run command and type this command in the Run dialog box- control/name DevicesAndPrinters
- Now the ‘Devices And Printers’ folder will open. Click on the Add Printer and follow the prompts.
- Once the wireless setup is complete a screen will be displayed showing the model of your printer and the name (or SSID) of your wireless network. Click Complete and exit
- After this, you will be able to see your Canon Pixma printer is connected to the laptop
If you still have not understood the process, refer to this article right here helping you figure out how to connect canon pixma printer to laptop using WiFi with quite a different approach.
How To Connect Canon Pixma Printer to Wi-Fi
- Switch on your Printer and the WiFi router through WPS Button.
- Press and Hold the ‘WiFi’ button on the printer
- Next, select the ‘LAN Wireless set up’ option and press ‘OK.
- Choose your WiFi Network in your router settings
- Click on the WiFi access point which will ask for WPA Key. Here, enter your WiFi password and press ‘OK’.
- When the wireless connection is done, the power and the WiFi light will stop blinking.
So that was pretty much all you had to do to connect your Canon Pixma printer to Wi-Fi.
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