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Elclid
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Canon IR 2525 shows up and works fine over the network on my Mac desktop but not on either of my two windows laptops. On one, a printer shows up named with the printers ip, but doesn't work and it doesn't show up at all on the other laptop. I tried installing generic plus drivers, the recommended driver from canons website, but at the stop where it has to find a printer, nothing comes up. Any ideas? 

 

Both the Mac desktop and the laptops are on wifi 

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Are the Windows laptops network settings set to Public or Private?

 

Windows Settings > Network & Internet > Status > Properties 

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Ahh.. the beauty of Canon printers on Windows. Truly, marvelous experience. 

 

On a serious note - make sure you have the Canon drivers installed on your Windows PC before attempting the connection (for your specific model). I did that, and it worked. But it's flimsy. Never again am I buying a Canon. 

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5 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

Are the Windows laptops network settings set to Public or Private?

 

Windows Settings > Network & Internet > Status > Properties 

It's private 

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5 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

Ahh.. the beauty of Canon printers on Windows. Truly, marvelous experience. 

 

On a serious note - make sure you have the Canon drivers installed on your Windows PC before attempting the connection (for your specific model). I did that, and it worked. But it's flimsy. Never again am I buying a Canon. 

OK on driver installation, there's no config for IR 2525, there's ir adv and ir adv pro and bunch of copies with different type numbers. Which do I do? Also an auto select and basic config option 

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6 minutes ago, Elclid said:

OK on driver installation, there's no config for IR 2525, there's ir adv and ir adv pro and bunch of copies with different type numbers. Which do I do? Also an auto select and basic config option 

just do the basic stuff, don't install any additional software.

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