Hello,
This seems to be a fairly active board. I hope someone has some insight into this...
I've spent way too much time on this already, but its driving me crazy because I can't figure it out. I have a Canon Multipass C530, which I don't even like, but that I want to put in my restaurant kitchen so I can plug in my laptop if I need to print something out. I really don't want to buy something new for this. I don't want to be mad when a bucket of salsa gets dumped on it, and since I already hate the Canon...well, you get the idea. Anyway, my Laptop (Toshiba Satellite) runs on Windows XP (which I'm also not sure I like yet, but that's another story). There was no pre-installed driver for the Canon, so I went to Canon's web site and downloaded their supposed solution for the XP/C530 incompatibilty. I followed (or tried to) the instructions exactly, which were basically to run a setup.exe file, re-start, then run a setup2.exe file. The problem was, when I tried to run the 1st exe. file, I got an error message saying that the printer must be connected before set up could proceed. I tried again & again & again, and each time, I got the same message. I checked all the obvious stuff. Yes, the printer was plugged in. The cable was connected properly. The printer port was functioning. I even plugged the printer back in to my old computer to make sure it still worked. It did. But for some reason, the program on my laptop would not recognize that the printer was hooked up to the computer. What could possibly be the reason for this? Oh, and I tried to print from an MSDOS prompt, whatever that's supposed to prove. No success. Any thoughts?
I'd really appreciate any insight. Its going to bug me until either I get it figured out or I pour salsa on the printer myself!
Thanks,
SS
This seems to be a fairly active board. I hope someone has some insight into this...
I've spent way too much time on this already, but its driving me crazy because I can't figure it out. I have a Canon Multipass C530, which I don't even like, but that I want to put in my restaurant kitchen so I can plug in my laptop if I need to print something out. I really don't want to buy something new for this. I don't want to be mad when a bucket of salsa gets dumped on it, and since I already hate the Canon...well, you get the idea. Anyway, my Laptop (Toshiba Satellite) runs on Windows XP (which I'm also not sure I like yet, but that's another story). There was no pre-installed driver for the Canon, so I went to Canon's web site and downloaded their supposed solution for the XP/C530 incompatibilty. I followed (or tried to) the instructions exactly, which were basically to run a setup.exe file, re-start, then run a setup2.exe file. The problem was, when I tried to run the 1st exe. file, I got an error message saying that the printer must be connected before set up could proceed. I tried again & again & again, and each time, I got the same message. I checked all the obvious stuff. Yes, the printer was plugged in. The cable was connected properly. The printer port was functioning. I even plugged the printer back in to my old computer to make sure it still worked. It did. But for some reason, the program on my laptop would not recognize that the printer was hooked up to the computer. What could possibly be the reason for this? Oh, and I tried to print from an MSDOS prompt, whatever that's supposed to prove. No success. Any thoughts?
I'd really appreciate any insight. Its going to bug me until either I get it figured out or I pour salsa on the printer myself!
Thanks,
SS