Driver for Pixma IP90 in Win10

[DH371]

Hi, I've used a Pixma IP90 for travel for years. When I changed to Win10 about 3 years ago I found a driver on the Canon Far Eastern website which worked perfectly. I recently changed my laptop and the driver on the Far East site is the same as on all Canon sites, it only allows printing in B&W. Does anyone have access to a driver for Win 10 which gives funtionality to print in colour ? Thanks !

[shadowsports]

Canon recommends installing the W7 driver in compatibility mode.  I don't see anything about the W7 driver being limited to print B&W only.

Pixima IP90

[DH371]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot - David

[DH371]

Hi Shadowsports, thought i should send a follow up reply in case anyone is looking for aswers to the same problem. Unfortunately I have not been able to try the win 7 driver as I am unable to get the printer to power up. I have asked about this in a separate post and it sounds as thought the printer is dead - it was a very old printer !  Thanks anyway, David

[FatboyJim · Accepted solution]

Hi Shadowports / DH371, newbie poster but a Canon PIXMA iP90 user for <cough> 15+ years (same printer!)... I've recently purchased a Windows10 (64-bit) laptop and have been having issues getting my PIXMA iP90 running at all (previous laptop upgraded from Windows7 to 10 so was running fine!).

I tried the iP90 driver in Windows7 compatibility mode as Shadowports suggested, but had no joy. Windows10 kept reporting 'no driver' when adding via USB and nothing seen with bluetooth (BT-001), so thought I would have to finally hang up its leads.

While searching for a suitable replacement (PIXMA TR150) I had a flash that I'd not tried the newer PIXMA iP90v driver, so downloaded from Canon (v 2_00a-ea21), set the executable to Windows7 compatibility (via properties), plugged the USB in and Windows10 immediately picked up as an iP90, printing a test page perfectly.

Added a 2nd printer (copy) and changed the port properties to BT-001, unplugged the USB and Bluetooth test page printed straight away too.

Thank you both for the suggestions and pointers (even 3 years on!) ... not so sure my iP90 will be so happy - it was probably looking forward to retirement!

[DH371]

Smart thinking FatboyJim - well done! Sadly I no longer have that printer as after a long life it seems some essential component had died. Good luck with yours .

[stn79]

There are Windows 10 drivers for the ip90, but Windows Update doesn't automatically load them. You have to manually download them from the Microsoft Catalog (catalog.update.microsoft.com) and install them manually

I wrote a tutorial here: https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Mobile-Compact-Printers/Can-t-get-PIXMA-ip90-to-work-on-Win10/m-p...