Reset windows pc no longer supports the printer?!?

Reset windows pc no longer supports the printer?!?

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Bill

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55,406 posts

268 months

Saturday 15th February
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I recently reset our PC which has cleared a load of apps off. It's also got rid of the printer driver and because it's an old Canon (MX330) it doesn't support windows 11. Any idea what I can do or is it new printer time. It worked before the reset.

Although now I'm wondering if it was the printer that buggered the PC in the first place?

Glosphil

4,600 posts

247 months

Saturday 15th February
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Have you looked on the Canon website? I have an old Canon printer being used with Win7 & wanted to use the printer with a laptop running Win11. Canon website recommended using the Win10 genetic driver & it worked perfectly.

Bill

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55,406 posts

268 months

Saturday 15th February
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It says it's not supported. I'll have another look...

Bill

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55,406 posts

268 months

Saturday 15th February
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Thanks, when I use that link I only get 3 options for W11 none of which are drivers.


Colonel Cupcake

1,237 posts

58 months

Saturday 15th February
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I had a similar problem with a Canon Pixma MP250 printer/scanner I was using on Win7 but would not work on Win11. From memory, I just downloaded the latest driver from Canons website, installed it, then right clicked, chose compatability mode and chose windows 7 and everything was fine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canon/comments/ttc07e/old...

Trustmeimadoctor

14,117 posts

168 months

Saturday 15th February
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Any driver win 7 onwards will work just extract them and use the inf file to install it rather than the installer (exe)