The Canon S830D Photo Printer
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Installing the drivers and setting up the printer:

With the print head and inks fitted, the next step is to install the printer driver. If you only intend using the printer as a Direct Print unit then you can skip the following. Anti virus software should be disabled and other applications shut down. Place the installation CD in your drive, this will auto run. Follow the simple on-screen instructions.

Turn off any Virus detection applications	Press the green button to start a simple installation process

The S830D has a memory card slot so a driver has to be installed for this too, this is all done from within the same initial installation process.

Turn printer on when this screen appears	The memory card reader is installed

With the printer drivers installed you only need to carry out one further operation, and that is the Print Head Alignment. Make sure you have some plain A4 paper loaded then click on the Start button and select Printers and Faxes in the Settings. Right click the Canon 830D icon and select Properties. On the Properties panel select the Maintenance tab and then click on the Print Head Alignment button. A pattern is printed, you must look carefully at each Column and decide which colour has the least lines i.e. the smoothest looking patch and enter the number (-3 to +7 ) in the box.

Maintenance tab	The print head alignment chart
Detail showing correct patch (-1) and out of alignment patches (+6 & +7)	Correct values need to be entered in the boxes

The Head Alignment process only needs to be done once, unless white lines start to appear on your prints. The whole process only takes about 5 or 10 minutes. I followed the Quick Start guide to the letter, and on page 20 there is another section called Adjusting the Print Head, using the printers Operation Panel. I assume this is for when using the printer without a computer, but this is not made clear in the book. It states "To print photographs more beautifully, be sure to adjust the position of the print head ......." As I am testing the printer for photographs I decided to re-run the print head alignment using the Operation Panel, this is also a 5 to 10 minute job. Fortunately the figures were exactly the same as in the previous head alignment routine.