Driver for Canon ip1500 printer?

Hi everyone!

Looks like I have to continue to maintain a duel boot XP-W7 system unless I want to buy a new printer. Anyone able to find a generic driver for this common printer?

Hi and welcome Tathra.

You didn't say if you're using Windows 7 32 bit or Windows 7 64 bit.

There is an available driver for each though on Canon's website.

Enjoy:

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...&modelid=10236

I found a driver update at this page: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...&modelid=10236

The updates and software are the same whether you have 32 bit or 64 bit Windows 7 Installed.

It shows the following:



Hopefully these will fix the problem you're having.

Sorry folks, If read carefully, it's not a driver at all, it's a Driver add-on module! There is no Canon ip1500 driver for any version of W7. That's why I was hoping there might be a generic (universal) version around.

From the read me blurb that comes with this add-on:

"This product is a module that expands the functionality of the
printer driver for Canon Inkjet printers.
By installing this product, you can use the printer driver to
set up compensation and processing functions for image data
such as photographs"

To me the way this reads is that the Canon Inkjet printer driver is natively installed by Windows 7... am I wrong here?

Does your printer work at all?

Give us some more info! We can't reach through cyberspace and analyze your computer.

Unlike say for our optical drives, no version of windows installs native drivers for (any) printers. I've got the little yellow exclamation mark in my Device Manager next to 'unknown device' and 'no driver installed for this hardware'.

How does my printer go on W7? To put it colloquially (I'm an Ozzie)it's prints as rough as guts!

If you install the driver add-on module, I'm guessing here it would make the printer work well. Canon wouldn't put that and then not expect the printer to work.

If it hasn't been tried, I'd give it a go.

I have done many installs of Windows 7 for friends and clients and on several occasions Windows 7 did install drivers for the printer. It happened only 4 or 5 times though.

Did you email or call Canon tech support?

So it does print, or are you just being facetious?

Have you tried installing the add-on and see if it works?

Your printer IS compatible with Windows 7; see the attached copy I got from the Canon website in PDF see the yellow highlight. I took a screen capture of the page:

Notice also that the "Windows Update" is listed. Have you tried doing that? Is your printer on when you go to the update site?

You can also try the update through the Device Manager where the Yellow Exclamation mark is and do an "Update Driver" then use the Search the Web feature.

You may have to have enabled the Microsoft Updates also, that is listed in the Windows Updates windows as I believe, "See other updates." in blue lettering below.

So you now know there is drivers out there for your printer as this page is straight from Canon.



We've done our job... the rest is up to you now! Good Luck!

Thanks Nibiru, but I've seen that Canon page before from my previous (weeks of) googling around the net and for the life of me I see no 'tick' in the W7 column for the ip1500 printer, or am I missing something?

As stated at the of the top of the page image, it is a "Compatibility List". No tick in the W7 column means not compatible (tick= compatable), or has my logic completely deserted me?

I Have installed that Driver 'add-on' mentioned in the early posts 3 times just to make sure and restarted my pc 3 times too (just to make sure) and no driver has been installed and the printer is useless.

I have also tried my Driver Detective software and like all driver update apps. if there is no driver for the hardware already installed in the first place, there is nothing to update and DD doesn't even 'see' the printer. I did do a driver update in XP (oh yes, Canon had one for my XP!). I also tried the automated Canon driver update service for nil results and even emailed Canon as well ...3 weeks ago for zero reply. Thanks Canon (they obviously prefer I buy a new Canon printer ...and hell will freeze-over first!) :-)

What I was hopeful about was that maybe someone else with an ip1500 with the same driver problem I'm having in W7, might have come across a 'universal' driver that works with the printer (?).

Try this.

In device manager, right click on the printer. Choose properties, then go to details tab. Change the dropdown to hardware ids. Copy and paste the results to here and if there is any type of driver at all to even be found for it, I'll be back with a link for you.

x86 or x64?