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I got a new canon printer. After downloading it I get the message that the
driver can't find a port. A port shows as having been selected however. Any ideas on how to get the new printer to communicate? Our old printer had no probs. I have XP. |
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You are installing the software BEFORE connecting the printer to the PC
aren't you? And connecting via USB? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... I got a new canon printer. After downloading it I get the message that the driver can't find a port. A port shows as having been selected however. Any ideas on how to get the new printer to communicate? Our old printer had no probs. I have XP. |
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We've spent numerous hours with the Canon techs, the Gateway techs and on the
Phone with a Microsoft tech. No one has been able to help. We took the printer, a Canon Pro 9000 to the Geek Squad and they were finally able to print a test page with a downloaded driver. We had already done all of that so the problem is either our operating system, or the brain itself. We will take the brain in and see if the Geeks can load it, but it is a new Gateway Athlon AMD and shouldn't be the problem. If it is the Windows XP, do we contact Microsoft or Gateway? We have the installation CD that Gateway sent with the computer. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: You are installing the software BEFORE connecting the printer to the PC aren't you? And connecting via USB? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... I got a new canon printer. After downloading it I get the message that the driver can't find a port. A port shows as having been selected however. Any ideas on how to get the new printer to communicate? Our old printer had no probs. I have XP. |
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It's possibly the USB ports..... if this is the case and the ports on the
motherboard have failed, the cheapest option is to purchase a PCI USB 2.0 card and install it and use that to connect printer to PC. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... We've spent numerous hours with the Canon techs, the Gateway techs and on the Phone with a Microsoft tech. No one has been able to help. We took the printer, a Canon Pro 9000 to the Geek Squad and they were finally able to print a test page with a downloaded driver. We had already done all of that so the problem is either our operating system, or the brain itself. We will take the brain in and see if the Geeks can load it, but it is a new Gateway Athlon AMD and shouldn't be the problem. If it is the Windows XP, do we contact Microsoft or Gateway? We have the installation CD that Gateway sent with the computer. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: You are installing the software BEFORE connecting the printer to the PC aren't you? And connecting via USB? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... I got a new canon printer. After downloading it I get the message that the driver can't find a port. A port shows as having been selected however. Any ideas on how to get the new printer to communicate? Our old printer had no probs. I have XP. |
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Hi Guys: I have a very similar problem. brand new Canon PIXMA MP600.... gone
through about 10 hours of techie consults with Canon and Dell... no dice! keep getting "printer not responding" message . can't print from any thing: Word , Notepad, system prompts, etc. The printer will print a test page from installation package. No problem showing on system menus USB ports. Also, have a Panasonic Lumix which I can download via same USB ports with no problem so I don't think the ports are damaged. Have installed/uninstalled/installed, gone back to the store and been given another machine, same model. Obviously some sort of snafu communicating between computer & printer. After reviewing this forum it seems to me that there is some sort of glitch in Windows that is affecting many of us with similar, if not the same problems. Oh, I also installed Service Pk2 several months ago, have disabled the firewalls, uninstalled REal Player, as suggested here and elsewhere on this thread. I sure appreciate all the ideas floated by folks on this site and would welcome any and all suggestions! The last word from Dell ( Microsoft won't talk to me as XP was installed by Dell when I bought the computer.) was to send me to their "specialists" for $129. Not too happy with that idea, especially when they wouldn't offer any redress if they couldn't help me solve the problem. Thanks everyone. -- daly "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: It's possibly the USB ports..... if this is the case and the ports on the motherboard have failed, the cheapest option is to purchase a PCI USB 2.0 card and install it and use that to connect printer to PC. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... We've spent numerous hours with the Canon techs, the Gateway techs and on the Phone with a Microsoft tech. No one has been able to help. We took the printer, a Canon Pro 9000 to the Geek Squad and they were finally able to print a test page with a downloaded driver. We had already done all of that so the problem is either our operating system, or the brain itself. We will take the brain in and see if the Geeks can load it, but it is a new Gateway Athlon AMD and shouldn't be the problem. If it is the Windows XP, do we contact Microsoft or Gateway? We have the installation CD that Gateway sent with the computer. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: You are installing the software BEFORE connecting the printer to the PC aren't you? And connecting via USB? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... I got a new canon printer. After downloading it I get the message that the driver can't find a port. A port shows as having been selected however. Any ideas on how to get the new printer to communicate? Our old printer had no probs. I have XP. |
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Of course. Since nothing worked Gateway sent us a new OS disc and I had to
do a destruction recovery and install the new system. Everything works now and both of my printers are up and running. Must have been a bad Windows OS disc. "seaturtle" wrote: We've spent numerous hours with the Canon techs, the Gateway techs and on the Phone with a Microsoft tech. No one has been able to help. We took the printer, a Canon Pro 9000 to the Geek Squad and they were finally able to print a test page with a downloaded driver. We had already done all of that so the problem is either our operating system, or the brain itself. We will take the brain in and see if the Geeks can load it, but it is a new Gateway Athlon AMD and shouldn't be the problem. If it is the Windows XP, do we contact Microsoft or Gateway? We have the installation CD that Gateway sent with the computer. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: You are installing the software BEFORE connecting the printer to the PC aren't you? And connecting via USB? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "seaturtle" wrote in message ... I got a new canon printer. After downloading it I get the message that the driver can't find a port. A port shows as having been selected however. Any ideas on how to get the new printer to communicate? Our old printer had no probs. I have XP. |
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