Canon PIXMA MG2120 User Manual - Page 247

Canon IJ Printer Driver Page 247 of 731 pages Home > Printing > Printing from a Computer > Printing with Application Software (Printing with the Printer Driver) > Overview of the Printer Driver > Canon IJ Printer Driver P025 Canon IJ Printer Driver The Canon IJ printer driver (called printer driver below) is software that is installed on your computer for printing data on this machine. The printer driver converts the print data created by your application software into data that your printer can understand, and sends the converted data to the printer. Because different models support different print data formats, you need a printer driver for the specific model you are using. Printer Driver Types On Windows Vista SP1 or later, you can install the XPS printer driver in addition to the regular printer driver. The XPS printer driver is suited to print from an application software that supports XPS printing. Important To use the XPS printer driver, the standard printer driver must already be installed on your computer. Easy-PhotoPrint EX and other application software that comes with the machine do not support the XPS printer driver. Installing the Printer Driver To install the regular printer driver, load the Setup CD-ROM that comes with the machine, and then install the driver from Start Setup Again. To install the XPS printer driver, load the Setup CD-ROM that comes with the machine, and then select XPS Driver from Add Software. Specifying the Printer Driver To specify the printer driver, open the Print dialog box of the application software you are using, and select "your printer name Printer" to specify the regular printer driver or select "your printer name Printer XPS" to specify the XPS printer driver. How to Use Printer Driver Help You can display the Help describing the driver setting items through the printing preferences screen of the printer driver. To view all descriptions of a tab... Click the Help button on each tab. A dialog box opens, displaying a description of each item on the tab. You can also click the link found in the description of an item to display a description of the linked dialog box. To see a description for each item... Right-click the item you want to learn about and then click What's This?. Alternatively, when the Help button is found at the right end of the title bar, click that button, and then click the item you want to learn about. A description of the item is displayed.