Established 75 years ago, the Japanese company Canon is now widely known as a manufacturer of various digital equipment. Among its products there are also peripheral computer devices - printers, scanners, webcams, etc. For their operation, the installation of special programs - drivers is required.
You can search for the required driver yourself, or you can do it using specialized applications. In the first case, you will most likely have to search on the Internet, but you should not forget the simplest options. For example, if a Canon printer or multifunctional device came to you with a complete set, look for the driver on the optical disc that should be included in its kit. However, there is no need to look for any files on it - this is an installation disk, therefore, in the menu that appears after inserting the media into the reader, there will also be an item for starting the driver installation procedure. You need to select this item, and then follow the instructions of the installation wizard. If the device came to you without a software disc, download the installation files from the Internet. There are a lot of web resources on the network that distribute a variety of drivers, but the safest source is the manufacturer's website. Below is a link to the server "Canon Russia" - one of the company's divisions. In the right column of the main page of this site there is a form with the use of which a multi-stage process of finding the required driver begins. Use the form and in a few steps you will be taken to an information page related to the model you need. This page will also contain a link to download the driver. An alternative to manual search is the use of specialized programs that can either provide you with a link to the desired page of the manufacturer's website, or download and install the driver yourself. The first option is used by information applications - for example, AIDA 64. They collect information about the software and hardware used in the computer, and provide detailed information on the parameters of each of them, including a link to the corresponding page of the manufacturer's website. Another class of programs is designed to update the drivers of all devices in use - for example, Driver Updater. Such applications independently determine that there is a more recent version on the manufacturer's website and automatically or at the user's command download and install the required driver.
