Easy Guidelines for Canon Printer Unboxing and Hardware Setup
- The Canon printer comes in a sealed enclosed box. Take out the printer from the box and all its key components i.e cartridges, cables, etc.
- Now, remove the polystyrene packaging wraps and all the orange tapes. Also, remove the protective plastic from the display of the printer.
- For hardware setup, the first thing is to locate the power socket on the printer. Then, plug in the power cable to the printer’s port and to the wall electrical outlet.
- To carry forward, switch on the printer by pressing the power button. Instantly, the printer display light will turn on.
- Now, it’s time to insert the ink tanks. For that, remove the cartridges outlet seal and the plastic covers that are covering the cartridge.
- Open the top cover of the printer and by doing so the printhead carriage will adjust automatically into its place. Take all the cartridges and put them into their corresponding slots.
- Close the printer top cover and you will notice that the printer starts making noises. It clearly indicates that the ink cartridge installation is successfully completed.
- Thereafter, you have to put some pages into the paper tray. To do so, open the flap from the back of the printer and gently pull out the input tray.
- Move the paper guides and load a few pages into the feeder. Then push the paper tray and properly fit it back into the place. This concludes the hardware configuration of your printer. Now ahead to ij.start.canon for driver downloading.
Use a wireless connection or USB connection to set up your printer. Follow every single step mentioned here to set up Canon ij printer:-
- Step 1- Configure the printer hardware
Take out all the canon printer elements from the box and assemble them on a clean surface. Then configure and connect to power, as well install Printhead and Ink Cartridges.
- Step 2 – Visit ij.start.canon
On your PC or Laptop web address bar, enter ij.start canon and Click Set Up.
- Step 3 – Enter Your Canon Printer Model
On ij.start canon page, enter or choose your Canon printer model and click Go. For it, see your printer’s front or top and find the Canon model name.
- Step 4 – Download Canon Printer Drivers
Select the correct operating system like Windows or Mac and click Download in front of the appropriate Canon drivers tab.
- Step 5 – Connect Ij printer to a wireless connection
Use Wireless LAN Setup or WPS Push Button method to connect your printer with a network connection. You will require a wireless router as well.
- Step 6 – Start the printer software installation
Once you download the setup from ij.start canon on your laptop or PC, double click on the Canon ij setup file [EXE or PKG] and accept the software license agreement.