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Canon BJC-80 Printer and Windows XP home

• I have a Canon BJC-80 printer purchased a couple of years ago, and a new Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows XP home. The printer doesn't work with my computer, but it does work with my (ex-?)girlfriend's computer which is also a Toshiba Satellite, but it has XP Pro on it. It also works fine with my older Satellite, which has an older version of Windows on it. I've spent a long time on Toshiba tech support, and concluded that the darn thing was broke (the computer, not the relationship). So I drove it out to a Toshiba authorized repair place, and they plugged it into several of their printers and gadgets, and concluded it worked completely fine and that there were absolutely no problems with the LPT1 parallel port etc. on the laptop. So I'm left with a laptop that seems to work with every printer in the world except the one that I happen to own. I understand, perhaps mistakenly, that the XP printer driver that installs when you select "Canon BJC-80" in the printer-install seems to be some general device driver XP uses now but it doesn't work properly with my printer. I no longer have the driver disk that came with the printer, and I've flopped around with the Canon web site which, for my printer, simply says that with the XP general device driver should work fine. The $2 price is for specific information that will help me gripe and whine more intelligently to my friends about my printer/laptop problem. I'll give a $5 tip for an answer that enables me to actually use my printer (I already own a bunch of ink cartridges for this Canon BJC-80, otherwise I'd go get a new printer). Thanks for considering my question!

• Answer:

  Hi Defaultuser, Thanks for your verification and reply to my questions. I visited a canon site regarding BJC-80 printer driver install on WinXP. It says: "BJ Printer with Windows XP? The driver for this model is included with Windows XP. The driver should be installed via the "ADD PRINTER WIZARD" feature of Windows XP. Please note that the original Microsoft Windows XP CDROM may be required to conduct the installation process. Posted: Thursday October 11 2001, 15:01:24" Canon BJC-80 Printer Drivers Page http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/bjc80_drivers.html Since you said you already tried but failed to make the printer work on your system using the method described above, I am going to give you several possible workarounds. FOR EACH of these possible solutions, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO UNINSTALL whatever previous BJC-80 printer drivers you have installed in your system. Here are the possible solutions: Option 1) Use the same method for the "ADD PRINTER WIZARD" feature of Windows XP Home. Follow the instructions properly. I'm asking you to repeat this after making sure that you clear any previous BJC-80 printer drivers because it is possible that something has gone wrong with the installation. Option 2) Use the same method for the "ADD PRINTER WIZARD" feature of Windows XP but when prompted for the XP Home CD, use the Pro version instead. See if this works. Option 3) Download "Canon NT4.0 BJ Driver v2.50GB" from this page: Download Library - BJC-80 http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/bjc80_drivers.html Install this NT driver. XP architecture is somewhat similar to WinNT and it is possible to use this driver version for your WinXP. If this works, expect that some features may not function correctly but at least, you can finally use the printer. Option 4) The suggestion made by my colleague, Hummer-ga, is a possible solution. Download "BJ_v397.exe" from this page: Download Library - BJC-80 http://www.usa.canon.com/html/conCprDriversTypeSystemV2.jsp?minisite=10000&type=Software&prodref=PS&subtype=Software&group_id=-1&level2catq=AllCats&x=2section=0&item=111&modelid=7998&section=10273&pname=BJC-80 Extract the files to a folder. Don't use the "PRNT5UPD.EXE" to install the printer. Manually install and if given an option to choose, select WinME. WinME architecture is also somewhat similar to XP and it is possible to use this driver version for your WinXP. Like the above, if this works, expect that some features may not function correctly but at least, you can finally use the printer. I tried but I wasn't able to find a Windows 2000 driver for your printer. If you can find one, you can use it. If none of these work, I'm sorry, but these are the only resources I can find for your printer. Search strategy: Direct search for BJC-80 drivers in Canon sites. I hope this helps you. Should you have any comments/questions, please feel free to post your clarification before rating this and I'll attend to you as soon as possible. Thanks for asking. Best regards, Feilong