thank you good sir....for some reason this actually worked and has been for the last 4 days across multiple devices.months and months of frustration finally resolved!
so I have come to the conclusion that it is how the printer and the router connect with each other and in the end, as ridiculous as it may be, the fault can be placed on the router for not playing nice with the printer...or the printer with not havin...
static ip is assigned to printer.even when I had it on dynamic it would always assign the same ip address since it was the next one in line.I'm glad that yours is working and thanks for your insights but I really think Canon dropped the ball on this.
@Another_Victim strange thing - turned on the printer after 24 hours and connected without issue. Even had location listed that I entered the previous night. So I thought, great it finally works! a few hours later, went back to it and no connection a...