Had same problem with PIXMA IP4000 trying to share from Win7 64bit to Win7 32bit. Windows 7 is so 'smart' to look for an extra driver only on your local PC (rather than find it the same way Windows update will find it) and only based on the (renamed) printer name in the Windows 7 driver (rather than the key provided by the printer itself). In it, there are 3 locations where the printer is described as 'Canon ip4500 series'.Īdd the word 'Inkjet' to it at the right place and try again.Īpparantly, Canon or Microsoft had been so 'wise' to rename the printer from 'Canon ip4500 series' to 'Canon Inkjet ip4500 series'. Instead of installing, Windows 7 could not find the proper driver (in my case for 'Canon Inkjet ip4500 series'). I say 'should' as in my case it did not work immediately. The 32-bit printer driver should be added to your Windows 7 64-bit. Point to the location of the inf file and press ok. It should be possible to add it as a driver for the x86 architecture through start->devices and printers, select you printer, rightclick, select printer properties and then enable the sharing options and select install additional drivers.Ĭlick on x86 and press OK. You'll end up with a driver folder in which you find the. It comes as a selfextracting executable, but this will not run on Windows 7 64-bit. I downloaded the canon driver (NOT the add-on module) from canon for 32-bit Vista to the Windows 7 PC. Printer worked under Windows 7, connected to the Vista laptop also, but wouldn't share. Windows 7 64-bit with canon pixma 4500 which I wanted to share with Vista 32-bit. Maybe there is some sort of generic driver (would be OK even with limited functionality)?
I've connected and installed the printer locally on the XP machine first (which works), so that the XP machine would already know the driver when using it as a network printer, but that doesn't work the wizard still wants a driver file.Īnybody suggestions how to get this working?
exe file isn't accepted as a driver when prompted by the Printer Sharing Wizard, I suspect because it is an add-on driver (whatever that may be). He driver provided by canon ( here) is described as a ' Canon Inkjet Printer Driver Add-On Module'.
'Normally' it should be no problem to use Windows printer sharing, however, because one machine is 32-bit and the other is 64-bit, installing an extra driver is required. The printer is connected to the Windows 7 (64 bit) computer, and we would like to be able to print from a Windows XP computer. But I can't get it to work due tot a Canon driver problem. For a friend, I am trying to share a USB Canon pixma ip3000 printer between two computers in his home network.