Canon Scanner & Colour Printer

[Guest]

I am running Windows XP SP2 and planning to upgrade to Vista. The Windows
Upgrade Advisor indicates that for my Canon Lide 80 Scanner & Canon LBP-2410
Colour Printer there could be problems. Does the Vista upgrade intallation
disk come with the correct drivers for the 2 devices?

Regards,

Nevio

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

LiDE80 Drivers for Vista (32 bit) are on the Canon website.... which is
where I'd look for the Laser Beam Printer drivers if I were you. There are
no Canon scanner drivers included in the Vista DVD. However there are lots
of them on the Canon website. If you have any worries about upgrading,
uninstall the LiDE80 before the Upgrade... and disconnect the printer from
the PC as well.

 

[Guest]

Thank you,
had a look in the Canon website, but unfortunately there is no Vista driver
for the colour LBP printer; do you think that the printer will still work
with the XP drivers?

Nevio

 

[Martin Racette]

I also found Lide 500F Vista x64 dirvers and application, they both work
quiet well

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Try them, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/laser_printers_colour/lbp2410_drivers.aspx

 

[Guest]

Hi Cari,

I am one step further down the road than Nevio. I've bought a Vista Home
Premium laptop. It recognised my Brother Laser 1240 instantly, and
painlessly installed the appropriate drivers (from the Vista OS - no external
disk source for the driver was not requested). Wonderful!!

However I have a Canon LBP-5200 colour laser as well. Although Vista
detects and lists the printer (when I ran "Add Printers") on the home
network, when it runs the driver installation routine it warns me not to
install the driver unless I trust the source. Since the source of the driver
file could only be the Vista OS (at this stage), I proceeded. Guess what - I
got the dreaded (I thought it had disappeared fully!) blue screen of death
for which Windows became (in)famous.

I repeated this exercise 3 times, always ending up with the blue screen and
reboot.

I dug out the installation CD that came with the LBP-5200 when I bought it,
but it won't even run on Vista - I get a message screen advising that there
are known compatibility issues with this printer.

Going to Canon's product page for the 5200 and clicking the drivers link:

http://alpha02.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900

shows NO drivers for it.

Great. MY advice to people is to check thoroughly ALL their peripherals and
software for compatibility issue with Vista. While it might be a more
stable, prettier etc OS it seems the folk at Redmond did not put the same
effort into ensuring that effective drivers and hardware support by
manufacturers was in place PRIOR to the Vista release. Blaming anyone
doesn't help of course, so this note is really for the benefit of users who
haven’t yet made the switch. While I like Vista at this early stage, being
able to print out is a fairly essential feature for even the most basic of
users!!

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

There are XP drivers for the 5200 on the Australian Canon website which may
work if you're using 32 bit Vista, although no one will guarantee it!
http://alpha03.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900

 

[Guest]

Cari,

Thanks for your help. However when I visit the page you mentioned (I had
already been there before my post), it does NOT have a Vista driver! The
only drivers are for Windows 2000, XP, 98, Me and Mac OSX.

By the way, I called Canon Australia yesterday and the support person said
the drivers for my printer LBP-5200 were coming from Japan around the first
week of May, and to check the web site then.

John

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

If you're running Vista 32bit, whilst waiting for the Vista drivers from
Canon, you may be able to use the 2000/XP 32 bit drivers.

 

[Guest]

Sorry Cari, didn't read your post closely enough. I might try the XP driver
- but I might also await the Vista one if it's due in 2 weeks.

Probably as a service to others reading this, trying the XP driver out and
re-posting what happens might be useful. I'll give it a bash!

Cheers!