If you have a Canon all-in-one printer, you may want to scan a document or photo. Why not? If your Canon printer has a scanner, you must take the benefit. In this tutorial, we will show you how to scan a document on a Canon printer. Here you will learn to use Canon’s IJ Utility, and scanning features built-in Windows to scan any document from your Canon all-in-one printer.

Scanning files and pictures into your device allow you to keep an electronic copy of them for archiving purposes or to send them quickly to other people via email, making it a useful exercise for the small business owner. Many Canon printers are all-in-one printers with a built-in scanner and can be used for scanning jobs. If you’ve a Canon all-in-one printer installed on your device, you can scan any document using the Windows “Fax and Scan” tool.

In order to scan a document and picture on your Canon all-in-one printer, please follow the basic instructions in the section below:

First, ensure that your Canon printer can scan.

Usually, all-in-one printers can scan, and many other Canon printers can also scan. However, you may have to check the printer’s documentation and product page to see the printer’s ability.

Connect your printer to your computer. The printers with scanning functions can also connect wirelessly via a touch-screen panel.

Also, you need to connect your printer to your system via a USB cable.

After that, download & install the printer drivers and utilities.

If your printer has a CD/DVD, you can use that to install drivers for your printer. The drivers also have IJ scan Utility that you can use to scan documents.

Now, turn on your printer. To do this, press the printer’s “On” button.

Confirm that it’s connected to a working power source if it doesn’t turn on.

Open the scanner. Lift the scanner’s lid, and you should see the glass bottom.

Place your document face down in the scanner. The document should be aligned with the top and left sides of the glass.

To place, look for the arrow in the back-left corner and set the document with that arrow.

Lastly, close the scanner lid. Ensure that it is closed before you start scanning.

Find the IJ scan utility folder on your Windows PC. To do this, click the Windows “Start“button and then open the Canon utility folder.

Open the “IJ Scan Utility.” It is a document-like icon next to the scanner.

After that, click the icon in the IJ Scan Utility folder.

Click Settings from the lower-right corner of the IJ Scan Utility app.

Then, click “Document Scan,” the second option in the menu.

Select PDF (multiple pages). To select, click the drop-down menu near the “Data Format” and select “PDF.” It will allow you to scan multiple pages into one document.

To save, use the drop-down menu to select the save location for your document.

Now, choose a save location, click “OK,” and click “OK.”

Documents will be saved to the “Documents” by default.

After that, click “Document“under the IJ Scan Utility window.

This window will start scanning your page and may take a while to finish. It has an icon named “PDF” next to the document.

Put the next page and click on “Scan.”

When you have more than one page to scan, insert the next page on the glass scanner/ automatic document feeder.

Ensure that the document is aligned with the arrow in the back left corner of the glass scanner.

Then, click “Scan“when ready to scan the next page.

Lastly, click “Exit.” After scanning every page of your document, click on “Exit.”

The scanned documents will be saved as PDFs in your Documents folder or the location you choose to save your documents.

Open the start button, a Window logo, in the bottom left corner of the screen.

In the window search bar, type Fax and Scan.

Then, it will search for the Windows “Fax and Scan” app.

Click Windows “Fax and Scan“at the top of the Start window. You will see the Fax and Scan app.

After that, click “New Scan” in the upper left of the Fax and Scan window. It will open a new window.

Ensure that your scanner is correct. If you see any other model instead of your printer’s model number, click “Change“and select your printer.

Select a type of document. To do this, click the “Profile” drop-down box and select the type of document in the drop-down box.

Decide your document’s color. To select, click the “Color Format” from the drop-down box.

After that, you need to select a Color or Black and White.

Select a file type. Click the “File type” and the file type you need to save the scanned documents.

If you want, you can modify the document before scanning it.

Click “Preview“at the bottom of the window. It will bring you a preview of the document in the scanner.

Click “Scan“from the bottom of the window. The scanning will begin on your computer.

To find the scanned file, open “Start,” then open “File Explorer” and click on “Documents” on the left side of the window.

At last, you need to double-click the scanned documents folder.

We hope this article will help you understand how to scan a document on a Canon printer.

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