Reset windows pc no longer supports the printer?!?

[Bill]

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]

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]

It says it's not supported. I'll have another look...

[Regbuser]

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Softwar...

[Bill]

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

[Colonel Cupcake]

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]

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

[Bill]

Hmmm, I never said thank you!

Came back for the instructions again.

Edited by Bill on Thursday 11th December 09:10

[rdjohn]

Bill said:

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?

I have an old HP LaserJet printer. Windows 11 has decided it’s obsolete.

We both also have iPads and so I now complete the task on my laptop, save it to OneDrive and print it from my iPad using AirPrint. It’s a faff, but I refuse to dump a perfectly serviceable printer because Microsoft have decided it is obsolete.

You can see why the world seems to love Apple products.