If you’re not sure what operating system you have, what’s the exact model for your Canon printer, or the driver installation somehow fails, Driver Techie can take it from here by installing the driver for your PIXMA MP490 automatically. Method 3: Update the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 automatically (suggested)

You may need to restart your computer for the change to take effect.

After the driver file download, you can double-click the setup file to run the driver installation.

Make sure you’ve selected the correct Operating System, then click the SELECT button, and select the correct driver file to download.

Click the DRIVER & DOWNLOADS button to go to the driver files section.

Then you’ll see the driver download page.

Type the model of your printer in and hit the Enter key.

Go to the Canon printer driver and software support page here:.

So we first need to find the appropriate driver on Canon support. To update the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 manually, you’ll first need to download it. Method 2: Update the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 manually

If you see other Canon PIXMA MP490 related drivers here, please repeat the above to uninstall them.

Then right-click your Canon PIXMA MP490 printer and choose Uninstall device.

Double-click to expand the category Print queues.

Click View on the menu bar, then select Show hidden devices.

On your keyboard, press the Windows key and X at the same time, then select Device Manager.

When your Canon PIXMA MP490 doesn’t work properly, one of the first things we should do is to reinstall its driver in Device Manager. Method 1: Reinstall the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 Note: the following screenshots are from Windows 11, but the instructions work on Windows 10 as well.

Update the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 automatically (suggested).

Update the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 manually.Reinstall the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490.Here’s a list of the troubleshooting steps that you can do: How to fix Canon PIXMA MP490 not working problem?

To do so, you can choose to download the driver for Canon PIXMA MP490 manually, or download the driver automatically, which saves you a bunch of time and energy so you can work on more valuable things.

If your Canon PIXMA MP490 is jammed, not responding to the printing command, or the printing quality is quite poor, one of the first things to do is to reinstall or update the printer driver.

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