topic Re: Seeking guidelines on how to install a server certificate for my gx6021 printer in Printer Software & Networking

Seeking guidelines on how to install a server certificate for my gx6021 printer

dkhill — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:10:45 GMT

I have a gx6021 printer and need to install a CA-ROOT/CA-INTERMEDIATE signed certificate. For some odd reason, the formats that I get from the CA does not work. I even tried to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) to send to the CA to be signed. But for some odd reason, the file that is downloaded for this is a .BIN file. There's no indication as to what this certificate is (pk2/7, DER ETC). The CA does not recognize this .BIN formatted file.

Anyone else have any luck in accomplishing this?

Re: Seeking guidelines on how to install a server certificate for my gx6021 printer

robertrose — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:57:07 GMT

Did you by any chance solve this? I have the same problem with another PIXMA model.

Re: Seeking guidelines on how to install a server certificate for my gx6021 printer

shadowsports — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:22:55 GMT

Greetings,

This is a 2-year-old topic. Since your inquiry is about a different product, I would recommend that you contact Canon support for assistance. They will be able to provide the encryption standard, file type requirements and upload procedure for your particular product.

Start by registering your product in your MyCanon account then call support.

https://myprofile.americas.canon.com/us/signin

1-800-652-2666

Re: Seeking guidelines on how to install a server certificate for my gx6021 printer

robertrose — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:22:12 GMT

Okay, I managed to sign the certificate:

cat PIXMA.bin | xxd -p | xxd -r -p | base64 1> PIXMA.raw

After that add the first and last line:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
...

-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----