Comments on: Will my old Canon printer work with Win XP?

Question: Will my old Canon printer work with Win XP?

NorthCoastCafe — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:34:48 -0800

Printer filter/ I'm downsizing to travel cross country and would like to use an old Canon bubble jet (BJ10ex) with my new Dell laptop running XP. Does anyone know if this won't work? I have to wait for a USB Parallel converter cable to arrive to test it. Are there other compatibility problems I need to know about?

By: AlexReynolds

AlexReynolds — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:50:55 -0800

Does your laptop not have a parallel port? I thought these were still on Latitudes and such.

Anyway, there are drivers on Canon's website to run the BJ10ex under Windows 2000, so those should work fine (albeit unsigned) in XP.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:54:05 -0800

There are drivers built-in to Windows XP for the BJ-10ex (and a lot of other common older printers).

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:14:42 -0800

ooh! I've got one of those up the loft. What's the cable you're getting NorthCoastCafe? Is it dear?