Canon PIXMA series printers

Has anyone found a driver that works? I tried several built-in drivers,
including the BJC-8000 which works with some Canons, to no avail with my
iP3000. Thanx.

Geo

George McDaniel

Contact Canon about the driver issue.
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"George McDaniel" <> wrote in message
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> Has anyone found a driver that works? I tried several built-in drivers,
> including the BJC-8000 which works with some Canons, to no avail with my
> iP3000. Thanx.
>
> Geo
>
>
>

When I emailed Canon about this very issue, this what they said:

Thank you for contacting Canon product support. We value you as a Canon
customer and appreciate the opportunity to assist you. We apologize for
any difficulties or inconveniences that you may have been experiencing
locating Windows XP 64-bit drivers for the iP3000 and LiDE 20."

Canon has not announced plans to develop Windows XP 64-bit drivers for
the iP3000 or LiDE 20. However, should Windows XP 64-bit drivers be
developed, these drivers will be posted on our Web site at
www.canontechsupport.com.

Thank you for choosing Canon.

Sincerely,

Tom
Technical Support Representative

"George McDaniel" wrote:

> Has anyone found a driver that works? I tried several built-in drivers,
> including the BJC-8000 which works with some Canons, to no avail with my
> iP3000. Thanx.
>
> Geo
>
>
>
>

Interesting, but it really sounds like it ain't gonna happen. Actually, I
did get my printer working using the BJC-8000 driver. In my first post, I
said that driver wouldn't work for me but that was because I mistakenly set
it up for LPT1. When I set it up for USB, the printer started working. I
haven't tried all the options but at least it works.

Geo

"talon_262" <> wrote in message
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> When I emailed Canon about this very issue, this what they said:
>
> Thank you for contacting Canon product support. We value you as a Canon
> customer and appreciate the opportunity to assist you. We apologize for
> any difficulties or inconveniences that you may have been experiencing
> locating Windows XP 64-bit drivers for the iP3000 and LiDE 20."
>
> Canon has not announced plans to develop Windows XP 64-bit drivers for
> the iP3000 or LiDE 20. However, should Windows XP 64-bit drivers be
> developed, these drivers will be posted on our Web site at
> www.canontechsupport.com.
>
> Thank you for choosing Canon.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tom
> Technical Support Representative
>
> "George McDaniel" wrote:
>
>> Has anyone found a driver that works? I tried several built-in drivers,
>> including the BJC-8000 which works with some Canons, to no avail with my
>> iP3000. Thanx.
>>
>> Geo
>>
>>
>>
>>

Good to hear you have it working. And your experience of getting it working
as a different model is fairly typical. Rarely do mfgs completely change the
interface and language of their printers, so if you can find a model that is
at least similar, it will usually work. May not have exactly the right
feature set, but you'll be able to print.

--
Charlie.

George McDaniel wrote:
> Interesting, but it really sounds like it ain't gonna happen.
> Actually, I did get my printer working using the BJC-8000 driver. In
> my first post, I said that driver wouldn't work for me but that was
> because I mistakenly set it up for LPT1. When I set it up for USB,
> the printer started working. I haven't tried all the options but at
> least it works.
> Geo
>
> "talon_262" <> wrote in message
> news:B72D63CA-D116-467A-B0ED-...
>> When I emailed Canon about this very issue, this what they said:
>>
>> Thank you for contacting Canon product support. We value you as a
>> Canon customer and appreciate the opportunity to assist you. We
>> apologize for any difficulties or inconveniences that you may have
>> been experiencing locating Windows XP 64-bit drivers for the iP3000
>> and LiDE 20." Canon has not announced plans to develop Windows XP 64-bit
>> drivers
>> for the iP3000 or LiDE 20. However, should Windows XP 64-bit
>> drivers be developed, these drivers will be posted on our Web site
>> at www.canontechsupport.com.
>>
>> Thank you for choosing Canon.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Tom
>> Technical Support Representative
>>
>> "George McDaniel" wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone found a driver that works? I tried several built-in
>>> drivers, including the BJC-8000 which works with some Canons, to no
>>> avail with my iP3000. Thanx.
>>>
>>> Geo

"George McDaniel" <> wrote in:

> Interesting, but it really sounds like it ain't gonna happen.
> Actually, I did get my printer working using the BJC-8000 driver.
> In my first post, I said that driver wouldn't work for me but that
> was because I mistakenly set it up for LPT1. When I set it up for
> USB, the printer started working. I haven't tried all the options
> but at least it works.

It will work nicely but you lose the ability to monitor the ink tanks.


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Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
> Good to hear you have it working. And your experience of getting it
> working as a different model is fairly typical. Rarely do mfgs
> completely change the interface and language of their printers, so if
> you can find a model that is at least similar, it will usually work.
> May not have exactly the right feature set, but you'll be able to
> print.
Right, I have a HP All in one 6100. Of course no x64 drivers. I had a
contact with the HP online support and I was told to have a try with the
990c drivers. It's working. Well, the printer is working, the scanner not
yet

Cheers

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That's good news. Since I'm using an external ink supply, I won't miss the
ink monitoring capability.

Geo

"David R. Norton MVP" <> wrote in message
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> "George McDaniel" <> wrote in:
>
>> Interesting, but it really sounds like it ain't gonna happen.
>> Actually, I did get my printer working using the BJC-8000 driver.
>> In my first post, I said that driver wouldn't work for me but that
>> was because I mistakenly set it up for LPT1. When I set it up for
>> USB, the printer started working. I haven't tried all the options
>> but at least it works.
>
> It will work nicely but you lose the ability to monitor the ink tanks.
>
>
> --
> David R. Norton MVP
> <>

"George McDaniel" <> wrote in:

> "David R. Norton MVP" <> wrote in
> message news:Xns96535384D5629drnortonyahoocom@127.0.0.1...

>> It will work nicely but you lose the ability to monitor the ink
>> tanks.

> That's good news. Since I'm using an external ink supply, I won't
> miss the ink monitoring capability.

Ooooops, I might have given you bad information, what I should have
said it it works nicely for my Canon S900. If your PIXMA is one of the
all-in-one models I'm not sure what will happen. Also, if your's is
the photo printer you *could* lose some resolution. Please let us know
how it works.


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<>

Well, here's the deal. The PIXMA is a photo printer, so I have all kinds of
options with the proper driver. The BJC-8000 driver only gives me the best,
standard, and draft options, and I think the best and standard are
identical. I didn't try the draft option. It also gives me the maintenance
screen for cleaning, etc, but I didn't want to try any of those just in case
it might mess things up. I get 11 different media options to print on with
the proper driver, but only two or three with the BJC-8000 driver.
Nevertheless, print quality seems to be the same as with the standard option
using the proper driver.

I can live with this. Many thanks for your help, guys.

Geo


"David R. Norton MVP" <> wrote in message
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> "George McDaniel" <> wrote in:
>
>> "David R. Norton MVP" <> wrote in
>> message news:Xns96535384D5629drnortonyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
>
>>> It will work nicely but you lose the ability to monitor the ink
>>> tanks.
>
>> That's good news. Since I'm using an external ink supply, I won't
>> miss the ink monitoring capability.
>
> Ooooops, I might have given you bad information, what I should have
> said it it works nicely for my Canon S900. If your PIXMA is one of the
> all-in-one models I'm not sure what will happen. Also, if your's is
> the photo printer you *could* lose some resolution. Please let us know
> how it works.
>
>
> --
> David R. Norton MVP
> <>