Right click on the icon for printer properties and you'll have an opportunity to change the name - I deleted the (1) suffix and added 'Wireless) to the name - and make sure that it's marked the defaultprinter.
Note: you may have 2 printers listed in 'Devices and Printers' - perhaps the wireless 'vesrion wiill appear with a (1) suffix to indicate that you've two printers. Once again, this should enable the successful printing but this time wirelessly.
Canon mp640 printer driver mac .exe#
exe (it's still tagged as in Win 8 compatability mode), but this time add as a wireless LAN printer. Next, unplug the printer and make sure you've entered the correct wireless SSID settings at the printer wireless setup window ( onprinter of course), and once again run the PC's printer installer.
Canon mp640 printer driver mac install#
Run the exe to install the driver for a direct USB connected install - this will now enable USB printing from any Windoze app print dialog box. exe,, right-click properties, select compatability tab and rencofigure as window 8: *** most importantly in COMPATABILTY mode (Win *** In Win 8 compatability mode, firstly as a directly connected USB printer. The suggestion is that the installation program needs to run in compatabilty mode.Īfter I completely uninstalled all canon drivers & even the auxilliary apps, I reinstalled the afore mentioned driver: (Note: to overcome error messages when uninstalling the driver, 1/ run services.msc - select print spooler stop 2/ run spool' - goto subdir PRINTER and delete the stuck job 3/ re-enable spooler)Įven a fresh driver install when using direct USB connection resulted in the same non-communication to the printerĪfter going around in circles for ages I finallycame across a suggestion on a microsoft help page:
it was listed as the available wireless printer) however when it actually came to printing from any app (it was always listed as a choice) the result was always a print stuck in the spooler. certainly indicated that all was fine with an 'install as wireless device' (i.e. So I will not bore you with the 3 days of uninstalling/reinstalling drivers & software other than to tell you that the installation of the driver (I 'm in UK so I got it here: My MP640 (old I know) stopped working recently after one of those lovely Win10 'updates'.
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