I spent what I consider way too much time on this. I couldn’t find much help, so I thought I would post to this forum. I’ve gotten a ton of information off of this forum over the years, I figured I should contribute something.1st, when I attached the printer to the router, the port indicator on the router did not light up. I knew my cable worked, so I figured there was some magical incantation that must be performed to enable this.2nd, none of my machines have CD-ROMs. CD-ROMs are those shiny Frisbee looking things that music used to come on. Some of you might not be familiar with this technology.
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All the directions I found directed me to install the canon provided software to enable a network install from the CD-ROM. I did find a canon link to a pdf that said you could get the required driver/software off of the pro-100 site. No dice – it isn’t there. I then found a link to the Canon IJ Printer Driver via a different product. Won’t bother you with the details.I was able to use a friend’s 9 lb laptop to connect to my home network and then run the CD-ROM. I installed everything from the CD. I was given the options to do a network connection (maybe install – can’t remember).
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I chose the wired option. While doing this, and this is important, so I’ll scream it as loud as I canTO ENABLE THE CANON PRO-100 ETHERNET PORT, HOLD THE RESUME BUTTON UNTIL THE POWER LIGHT BLINKS 11 TIMES, THEN LET GOMaybe you can find that on the internets. That CD-ROM software told me about this spell.3, I now had the printer’s Ethernet port enabled, the only way I could figure out to get the IP was to print the network status page. Hold the resume button down until the power light blinks 6 times.
That will show you if the wired/wireless networks are enabled/disabled and give you their respective IP addresses.4, The fancy software that I spent redonk amounts of time getting going couldn’t find the printer on the network. I’m crazy, so I tried it about 8 times. No dice.5, I went back to my original Windows 7 machine – that didn’t have the CD-ROM software on it. The only thing installed on it is the XPS and non XPS pro-100 drivers and the printer plug in.
I went to “Printers and Drivers”. I added a printer from here. The machine couldn’t find it on the network, so I took the IP address from #3.
So I typed that in. The OS couldn’t determine what type of printer it was. I was given options.
Canon was one of the options. Canon pro-100 was at the very bottom of the canon section. Clicked that, and just like that, ez-pz – I had a network installed printer.Summary for the CD-ROM-less amongst us.
I wonder if you could go straight to enabling the ethernet port, then installing the printer as described in #5. As I mentioned in another post, I can’t seem to figure out if my network printer is using the XPS or non XPS driver – maybe that is because I didn’t use the Canon IJ Printer Driver?I hope I have made the internet a better place.
I hadn't thought about the dynamic ip address. Yeah, that will be a problem, won't it! I guess i'll go fiddle around with my router.as a side note, i'm a software engineer that has worked at a printer company, i have written drivers AND i have written sw to control drivers, i have written GUIs and back in college i had a job setting up labs. I constantly find myself wondering how people without my background figure this stuff out.one thing I didn't mention was that i did try to connect the printer to my router via WPS. My router melted down.
I could no longer connect to it via ANYTHING. I had to hard reset my router, but the name changed on the router AND the router is smart enough to not let me reset it back to the original name, so i have to reset all of my wireless devices to connect to the new SSID.at a certain point you begin to wonder why you don't send your images off to be printed.
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JohnHoffman wrote:When you go to the Pro-100 support site for driver/software download (W7/x64) there is a printer driver download. If you expand using the + block it tells you it will install the printer driver and the IJ network tool.I' surprised you had a problem. Even though my computer does have a CD drive I always go to the website instead of using the CD since invariably the included CD is out of date.I have used the downloaded software on PC and Mac without problem.The first thing I did was install the drivers from here. These two drivers were the only thing I ever installed on my machine.After that, I had no idea how to get the printer's network port turned on. As mentioned, hold the resume button for 11 blinks, let go, then get the IP from the network status page (via resume button for 6 blinks), then install a printer via windows and use the IP.so yes, very easy if you know what to do. I imagine i could set up a pro-100 on a new machine in less than 5 minutes if i already had the two drivers downloaded (sans cd-rom). At no point did i stumble upon the directions laid out this way.i too typically never use the included CD-ROM.
As mentioned, i can't. My Pixma Pro-100 set up perfectly first time round (using downloaded drivers from the Canon site). I was ecstatic, actually, as everything - from wireless to color management - worked flawlessly right out of the box.Scroll forward a few months, and we wound up changing our router - couldn't get the%$!.) !# thing to be recognized by the computer.After two hours of frustration, I finally uninstalled all Canon software, and started from scratch. It required being connected first by USB cable, and then re-connected it via wireless, but at last.
I just hope it doesn't demand this every time (as we now have two routers going - not by choice, but there's one that came with the cable box as well as the faster one we prefer to use).Dear Canon, if you see this: please, please, PLEASE make it possible to check which network the printer is using ON THE PRINTER. A small screen or something so we know where it is, even if the computer fails to connect, would be awesome.Hope this helps somebody else; I lost two hours of my life to this today!!