Unbox and Setup Canon IJ Printer -
The Canon printer comes in a sealed enclosed box. Take out the printer from the box and all its key components i.e cartridges, cables, etc.
Now, remove the polystyrene packaging wraps and all the orange tapes. Also, remove the protective plastic from the display of the printer.
For hardware setup, the first thing is to locate the power socket on the printer. Then, plug in the power cable to the printer’s port and to the wall electrical outlet.
To carry forward, switch on the printer by pressing the power button. Instantly, the printer display light will turn on.
Now, it’s time to insert the ink tanks. For that, remove the cartridges outlet seal and the plastic covers that are covering the cartridge.
Open the top cover of the printer and by doing so the printhead carriage will adjust automatically into its place. Take all the cartridges and put them into their corresponding slots.
Close the printer top cover and you will notice that the printer starts making noises. It clearly indicates that the ink cartridge installation is successfully completed.
Thereafter, you have to put some pages into the paper tray. To do so, open the flap from the back of the printer and gently pull out the input tray.
Move the paper guides and load a few pages into the feeder. Then push the paper tray and properly fit it back into the place. This concludes the hardware configuration of your printer. Now ahead to ij.start.canon for driver downloading.
Power on the computer and enable your preferred Wifi. Now, access a secure internet browser to maintain privacy against vulnerabilities. You can make a quick choice between Chrome, Safari, Edge Chromium, Opera, Internet Explorer, etc.
As ij.start.canon gives you free access to the canon printer drivers suitable for your printer. Hence, you have to go straight to ij.start.canon by entering it in the address bar. Then to reach the welcome window, press the Enter key.
Here, you will be able to see the Setup tab which is required to click for accessing the Product Selection window. Hence, click Setup and move to the next step.
Once it is launched, you will observe a search field in the center of the screen which is obligatory to fill with your correct product model number. Hence, certify the model number by seeing the label pasted on the back of the printer. Then, click Go.
You will view the Download window of ij canon setup on your computer. Double-check the Operating System field and quickly change it if there is a need to do so. Now, click the Download button to proceed with downloading the software.
You are requested not to swap between different windows or run other additional software as this may affect the internet speed and delay the download processing of ij.start.canon file. When done, you will get the option to save the file in a secure folder according to your preference.