Canon PIXMA MG3150 printer on Windows 10?

Question

A neighbour has a nice Windows 7 PC (#1), working with a Canon PIXMA MG3150 printer. Microsoft, others, and I keep saying he should be using Windows 10 (as I do), and he has eventually accepted that he should do so too.

We have recently been given another PC (#2) which has Windows 10, so I thought it best to first get a MG3150 printer driver for that PC from the Canon UK Web site. We found one there listing Windows 10 compatibility, and tried to install it; but installation did not complete (no failure message, but the dialog had said that it would vanish on completion; it did not vanish). We subsequently found another page listing OS compatibilities for the MG3150 - that list did not include Windows 10.

I don't really want to upgrade his PC #1 Windows 7 to Windows 10 and find that his printer does not then work anywhere.

Meanwhile, I have an old Windows 7 PC (#3) and I have a two-year-old but unused Canon PIXMA XL 2550S printer. I would like to commission the 2550S on the donated PC #2, and subsequently use on my current PC (#4); but it would be sufficient if it worked on PC #3.

He would be reluctant to put my 2550S on his PC#1, and does not want to buy a new PC-with-printer system.

All PCs mentioned here are desktop ones; #1 and #4 currently have reasonably wide screens.

Any suggestions?

Brian Gaff (Sofa · Accepted Answer

I don't know specifically but I have several old printers running on an old xp machine which is on a network with machines running more modern versions of windows. The odd thing is this. Though when I select the printer via the machine from another machine it says installing driver and then it works. If you move said printer onto the machine directly, the software will either not install or sometimes even be found.

My guess is that a lot of windows drivers will work, but are simply not allowed to for some reason which is different for a driver running over a network for another pc. It is all a big mind numbing. Brian

Andrew · Answer

The Pixma MG series are quite recent though surely, and I wouldhave just plugged the printer in and allowed Win10 to recognisenew hardware and leave it to decide what driver is needed.

Jeff Layman · Answer

Indeed. The Canon website lists a couple of Win10 drivers for the MG3150:(32-bit is also available)I had an old IP3000, and there was no Win10 driver available for that.

John Stockton · Answer

Andrew: He says that he has had the printer for a long time. If available, the manual might tell us more.

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Jeff wrote (beware of line-warp) :

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Jeff: That is the page that we got the non-installing driver from.

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P.S. : Yesterday I heard/read, FROM NON-PRIMARY SOURCES, that (1) Free update, Win7 to Win10, ceases in October 2021; (2) for Windows 10 "retirement date is Oct. 14, 2025". So, if it matters to you, watch out for something authoritative.

Graeme · Answer

In message      John Stockton      writesNot quite answering the question, but my printer is the MG3250 which works with W10 directly and across our home network.What I do recall is that a lot of faffing around was involved, together with careful reading of the manual, as, to get it to work, certain actions are required in a specific order, otherwise installation fails.Needless to say, I cannot remember the details, and the manual is not to hand, although is probably available online.Amazon tells me the printer was purchased August 2013.

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