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Tag: scanner Canon MAXIFY MB5150 – Systematically Not recognized as Scanner Device / No Connection on Windows 11 – or Scanning is ‘So Super Slow’

Really very nice printer-scanner overall. A bit big for a home user, i.e. a quite a bit bigger and heavier than other comparable printer-scanners, but rather rug-weight and with decent result for printing and scanning. And the ink cartridges seem to hold much longer than for ‘comparable’ printer-scanners.

Only big challenge seems to be the Canon scan software. Found the ‘Canon IJ Scan Utility’ software from Canon on the Internet, yet very regularly run into the problem that

  • either the printer/scanner is not recognized at all / error message ‘no connection’ (after having received a ‘success’ message’ at the end of an initial scan soft install procedure)
  • or the scanning process just stops / cancels after a couple of mins,
  • or the scan process takes literally ‘ages’ to complete…

Running Windows 11 on a Dell tower PC. read more

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