We recently had a big lightning storm and it took out our Pixma MX870. We've had this machine for a couple of years, and it's the best all-in-one we've ever had, so I was saddened to find that it was no longer in production. I found a used one on ebay and made the purchase. While waiting for it to arrive, just to make sure the old one was dead, I plugged it back in OMG it works! So, all is well, and the ebay printer will be the back up just in case this happens again- except I'm having trouble getting the new machine to work. It powers up fine, and will perform basic functions like making a copy, all of the set-up functions seem OK, but i cant get it to print/scan from the computers. The machine is wired to the wireless router (Linksys) but none of our laptops will recognize it. I've set it up just like our other one, but it will not work. This morning I hooked it directly to my laptop with a USB cable- same results.
The prior owner used it with a Mac, and we're Windows. Is there something that needs to be reset or printer name changed, or ???
The drivers/software that are installed on all of our machines work the old MX870 just fine. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
