How in the world do you hook up a canon printer to a router? Your instructions are TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!

[MrLandTrust]

I bought a Cannon PIXMA MX 459 printer. My wife and I have spent over 4 hours now trying to get this *@#!%^&* thing to work! We REALLY resent the waste of our precious time in life. Why can't Cannon hire people to write their instructions for people to easily understand? Is it really THAT hard to do? I have researched our problems on this forum and it apprears we are not the only ones having trouble....Cannon..wake up...read your own forum....your customers are mad as hell at you!

[Crista]

Hi MrLandTrust!

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Thanks!

[MrLandTrust]

Crista,

Thank you for replying. I have tried following all the other people's suggestions (seem that EVERYONE has

trouble with Cannon equipment....see the internet). I will call your customer support tomorrow. One last thing,

you REALLY need to get better Instruction writers. By the amount of complaints floating around the internet

about Cannon set up instructions, it would be a good business decidion on your part.

Thanks again,

Mr. Land Trust

[jrhoffman75]

Does this help?

Press the SETUP button on your printer's control panel.
Using the arrows, select DEVICE SETTINGS, press OK.
Select LAN SETTINGS and press OK.
Select Wireless LAN Setup and press OK.
If a message appears to press the WPS button, press STOP to cancel.
Select STANDARD SETUP from the next screen that appears and press OK.
Highlight your access point or router and press OK.
Press OK again to confirm the access point name.
Enter your passphrase using the keypad to the right.
At the screen where you enter your passphrase, in the top right corner of the LCD screen you should see a :1 . This indicates that you are in numeric entry mode. If you press the asterisk key (*) it will switch to :A or uppercase letter mode, pressing asterisk again with switch to lowercase letter mode. To enter a letter in either letter mode, you will press the associated number key to cycle through the available letters. For example: To enter a letter "c", you will press the "2" key three times.
Press OK when done.
The LCD screen will say "Connected" if the password is correct.

[MrLandTrust]

Thanks for trying to help me, but there is no STANDARD SET UP option on my new printer.

[jrhoffman75]

I don't have your kind of printer, so I can't directly help you, but this thread seems to indicate that the instructions i sent you do work.

http://forums.usa.canon.com/t5/Wireless-Networking/mx459-will-not-let-me-enter-number-in-WEP-key-onl...

[hershey]

Thank you JR Hoffman!!!!  After a few hours trying to figure out how to get my printer hooked up to a router....I read your

instructions and they worked perfectly!!!!  Maybe you should be working for Canon?????

Thanks again!

hershey