Where can I find drivers for Canon Selphy CP900

Hi Rach,

Do you have any further info, I'm trying to use a SELPHY CP900 with a SURFACE PRO 2 and having no luck, I get almost all the way through an install then it falls over and says printer not connected.

My surface can see the printer as a device though I though just can't print from it any help is greatly appreciated. So Frustrating I expect better out of Canon.

Desperate,

Matt.

Hi Henry, 

Do you have any further info, I'm trying to use a SELPHY CP900 with a SURFACE PRO 2 and having no luck it I get almost all the way through an install then it falls over and says printer not connected.

My surface can see the printer as a device though I though just can't print from it any help is greatly appreciated. So Frustrating I expect better out of Canon.

Desperate,

Matt.

These instructions worked (kind of) for my 800. I say kind of, because even when you get them installed there's a limitation. The drivers will only work in the sRGB color space. This means if you're printing from apps like Photoshop and Lightroom you have to override the default color space printing options and force it to sRGB, or your printouts will look horrible (everything will be muted).

In practice this isn't all that bad, because I tend to do all my printing from Lightroom (even if I've edited in Photoshop), and Lightroom saves your color profile preference when you save a configuration. So all I do is choose my Selphy 800 config, and it switches to sRGB.

Hope this helps.

Henry

Hi Steven,

We do have a Windows 8 - touchsreen that we got recently. 

so does your instruction below works for this?

where do we find the windows 7 directory?

can you please help.

we really need our selphy printer for our photobooth part time business

 to work with our windows 8 computer.

thanks

racheal

where can I find drivers for the Canon Selphy CP900

Actually ... if you surf the web long enough you can almost always find solutions to most any problem ....

This is NOT my personal solution, but it is a solution I found that actually does work if you follow it to a "T" !!!

"It's a bit late but there is a way to get this to work with Windows 8.

First, disable driver signing enforcement:

From the Charms bar, select Settings then Change PC Settings.

Select General and scroll down to Advanced Startup and click restart now.

From the menu, select troubleshooting then Advanced Options then windows startup options.

Restart again and select number 7 Disable driver signature enforcement.

Your PC will boot up as normal.

Now Right Click the driver file and select troubleshoot compatibility.

Go through the procedure and tell it that the driver worked in Windows 7

It should then install and work, there may be an error but it still works.

Once you reboot again the driver enforcement is reverted but the printer still works.

I run mine perfectly from 2 Windows 8 machines."

My only problem following this was that I couldn't locate what the Author was calling the "Print Driver" so what I did was skip the whole "trouble shooting compatibility" step, and just go into the install CD and highlighted the initial "setup" file in the top directory and changed compatibility to Win 7 and also checked "Run as Administrator".  I then went into the Windows 7  directory on the install CD and also changed the setup file in that directory too ... (Same as before) I then ran setup from the CD and everything installed and worked perfectly!!!!

As I said before, it might not be the perfect solution, but it sure worked!!!!