Virtual Serial Port Driver
Install new drivers downloaded from Canon (updated for Win10) 4. Uninstall previous drivers 2. Wrote: Found solution for my case. Uninstall Toolbox in safe mode 3. Presto mr photo for windows 10. Install Toolbox in safe mode (also downloaded from Canon, version ToolBox_4911 mf17_Win_EN) Now working fine.
My question is similar to, which has no answers. I have software that can only print to a printer on COMx, a printer with a USB port, and a computer with a USB port but no serial ports, so the oft-suggested physical Serial-to-USB adapter isn't a solution. I'm looking for software that tricks Windows 7 into mapping a virtual COM port to a physical USB port. I'm certain that if the software I'm using sends its stream of bits to the USB port that the printer will work just fine.
Virtual Serial Port Driver
How do I trick the software into thinking it's printing to COMx when it's actually printing to USBx? Internet searches only turn up drivers for some specific hardware Serial-to-USB adapter, but that's not what I'm looking for as I don't have that hardware. I found a Microsoft forum where they suggested changing the USB port's label in Device Manager, but we never found anything like what they described; perhaps that's possible with a different USB controller than we have. There is a simple way to do it using standard Windows commands. Lee Harrison's link shows this command, but here's a short description.