A Guide On How To Connect Canon Printer To Laptop?

You may need to perform various tasks with your Printer for home or office purposes. A huge variety of printers available provides amazing results, and the Canon printer is one of those. Canon printer has been widely used worldwide. In Canon printers, you get a variety of printers you can choose from. You can utilize Canon printer's features with mobile devices such as smartphones and laptops. You must connect your Canon printer to the device to do so. This blog will discuss how to connect a Canon printer to a laptop. Let's see the steps for this. 


Many users face difficulty while connecting their Canon printer to any device. We'll discuss it also. Overall, it's very easy to do it through these methods. 

How To Connect Canon Printer To Laptop via USB? 

If you have a Canon printer and want to take print from your laptop to a Canon printer, here are the steps you must follow: 


  • Firstly, turn your Canon printer off and put one end of the USB cable into your Printer's USB port. 

  • Then, put another end of the USB cable into your laptop's USB port. 

  • Now, go to the official website of Canon printer via browser. 

  • Then, move to the Start menu at the bottom left corner of the screen and then go to the Control Panel. 

  • Click on "Hardware and Sound" menu.  

  • Then click on the "Devices and Printers" option. 

Then, click "Add a Printer" and select the Local Printer option. 

  • Select a printer port from the list for your connection. 

  • Click on the Canon printer from the list of available printer models. 

  • Click "Next." 

  • Choose whether you want to share your Printer with other devices or not. Then click "Next."

  • Choose if you want to keep the Canon printer as the default printer, and then click the "Finish" tab to finish the process. 


By following the above steps, you can connect your Canon printer to your laptop easily. 

How To Connect Canon Printer To Laptop Using WiFi? 

WPS setup can be done when your model has this option enabled. Ensure that the access point has a physical WPS push button and that the network uses WPA security protocol. After that, follow the given steps to proceed. 

  • First, turn on the Printer. Then, press and hold the Wi-Fi button on the Printer till the lamp flashes. 

  • When the lamp next to the Wi-Fi button flashes blue, go to the access point and press the WPS button in 2 minutes. 


When the laptop and printer connection is set up, Wi-Fi will stop flashing, and the power will stop. 

How Can You Install Canon Printer Drivers? 

If your computer recognizes the Printer, then it's well and good. Otherwise, you must manually install the printer drivers from Canon's support website. 


Besides this, you can use the installation CD that came with the Canon printer and follow the setup program. Canon printer has a huge variety of printers, such as Canon Pixma, Canon G3000, Canon MX472, etc., and their installation method is similar. 

How Do You Solve Printer-Related Errors? 

The errors are annoying, especially when you have something important to print and suddenly an error takes everything down. This is the case when the printer drivers are outdated or corrupted. The Printer stops responding to your commands and doesn't do any tasks. But you can easily fix the problem by updating your Printer's drivers to the latest versions. 


Here is our guide on how to update Canon printer drivers manually and automatically. We recommend you use professional driver updater software, as it automates the Update of bulk drivers, thus, saving your time and efforts to restore and schedule scans for updates. Hence, keeping your PC updated with the latest printer drivers is a must. Try these steps to troubleshoot your printer issues on Windows 10/11. 


Here are the steps to update the Canon printer driver with Advanced driver updater: 

  • First, install and open the driver updater program on your Windows. Or you can go to the official website of Advanced Driver Updater. 

  • Then, register yourself with the product to take advantage of the program. As it provides a free edition, you can update the printer drivers individually. 

  • After that, click the Start Scan Now button to begin a scan and let the updater program specify outdated, incompatible, missing, corrupted, and damaged printer drivers. 

  • Wait for it to scan everything. 

  • When the result appears, navigate to the faulty Canon printer Driver, click the Update button close, and replace it with the latest printer driver version. 

  • You can also hit the Update All button to install specific batch driver updates on your computer. 


Conclusion 

You learned how to connect a Canon printer to the laptop on both wired and wireless connections and how to install and update printer drivers to troubleshoot common printer issues. The methods mentioned above are convenient and quickly fix your printer driver issues. You can easily update printer drivers for your Canon printer with the help of the Advanced driver updater. 

FAQs 

Why Is My Canon Printer Unable To Connect To My Laptop? 

There can be many reasons, such as network issues, loosely connected cables, or minor technical issues. It can be quickly fixed by rebooting your PC and Canon printer. 

Why Is My PC Not Recognizing Canon Printer? 

Your PC does not recognize the Canon printer because it doesn't have the drivers installed. To fix this issue, you must install appropriate Canon printer drivers. 

What To Do If The Printer Is Not Detected? 

If you want to fix the Printer not detected issue, you have to update or install printer drivers. 


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