Pixma Cloud Link is an application canon cloud print as Pixma printing solutions app that created and developed by Canon. This application has many features that can facilitate users in using the Canon Pixma Wireless Printer to allow cloud printing. Through this application, users can print from social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter or photo sharing sites such as Picasa, Photobucket and Flickr. Not only that, users can print directly from cloud storage services like Evernote and Dropbox. For that, users can log in and select the image or document you want to print. It is all done via the LCD screen on the printer.
The user-based tablet or smartphone iOS and Android can also print directly to printers and retrieve files from the Canon Pixma Printer and scanner. That way, you can easily send files to mobile devices without the hassle of carrying a sheet document.
Using the Pixma Cloud Link, you can connect the printer to the cloud services, such as CANON iMAGE GATEWAY, Evernote, or Twitter, and use the following functions without using a computer:
- Print images from a photo sharing service
- Printing documents from data management services
- Save the scanned images into data management services.
- Using Twitter to report the status of the printer, such as no paper or ink level is low.
"Pixma Cloud Link is an pixma cloud app that requires an active Internet connection using Wi-Fi or LAN".
Further, the application is also compatible with Google Cloud Print app, so you can keep printing anywhere safely and comfortably.
How To use Pixma Cloud Link
- Check your internet connection (must be on active Internet Connection using Wi-Fi or Lan).
- Update your latest printer driver and firmware. Pixma Cloud Link requires Ver.2.000 or latest firmware.
- From the printer home screen, select "Cloud".
- Registration to the server will shown.
- When the registration completed screen appears, select OK.
- On comfirmation screen, click Next.
- In the License agreement and Privacy statement windows, read the statements, and then select Agree if you agree.
- On the Time zone screen, select the time closest to your region, and then select Next.
- In the time zones list, select the region closest to you.
- And now you can print using Canon Pixma Cloud Link.
If your face some problem when using Pixma Cloud Link :
- Check that the printer is connected to the Internet.
- Check that the printer is connected to a LAN and the LAN environment is connected to the Internet.
- Check that no error message is displayed on the printer's LCD monitor.
- If the problem is not resolved, use the printer driver from your computer to perform the print job and check whether the data can be printed normally on the printer.
- If you still cannot print, see the troubleshooting page for your model on the Home of the Online Manual.