Canon PIXMA MG6620 Driver

You plug in the printer, the system acknowledges that something is connected, and then nothing prints. Anyone who has set up an all-in-one inkjet knows this moment. The hardware can do plenty, but without the right software layer, your computer treats it like a mystery box.

The Canon PIXMA MG6620 Driver is that layer, the package that turns a detected device into a working printer, scanner, and copier.

This is a bundle rather than a single file. Installing the Canon PIXMA MG6620 Driver puts the print driver itself on your system, adds ScanGear so the flatbed becomes visible to scanning applications, and includes IJ Scan Utility for one-click scans to PDF or image files.

Everything the printer advertises on the box, duplex printing, borderless photos, card-slot workflows, runs through this package.

What the package actually installs

The core component registers the printer with the system print queue and exposes its settings. Without it, the Canon PIXMA MG6620 either refuses to print or falls back to a generic mode that ignores half its capabilities. The second component, ScanGear, is the scanner driver, and it matters just as much. A common complaint with all-in-ones is that printing works while scanning stays invisible, which almost always means the print driver arrived alone.

IJ Scan Utility rounds out the essentials. It sits between you and ScanGear with preset buttons for document scans, photo scans, and stitching oversized originals from multiple passes. There are also optional extras, My Image Garden for photo layouts and Quick Menu as a launcher.

Honest opinion, you can skip both. They occupy space and duplicate what any photo tool already does, while the driver and the scan utility carry all the actual weight.

Print settings the hardware cannot reach on its own

The printer’s five separate ink tanks, one pigment black for text and four dye inks for photos, only pay off when the driver tells the hardware which mode a job needs. Document mode leans on the pigment black for sharp edges. Photo mode switches to the dye set and unlocks the full 4800 x 1200 dpi resolution with droplets down to 2 picoliters, which is where borderless prints up to 8.5 inches wide stop looking like inkjet output and start looking like lab prints.

Automatic duplex lives here too. The setting sits in the driver’s print dialog, not on the printer’s touchscreen, so a machine without the package always prints single-sided no matter how capable the mechanism is. Paper profiles follow the same logic.

Telling the driver you loaded glossy photo stock changes ink density and drying behavior, and skipping that step is the usual reason photos come out smeared or washed out.

Scanning from the flatbed to your computer

The flatbed captures at 2400 x 1200 dpi optical resolution and handles originals up to 8.5 x 11.7 inches, enough for letter documents and standard photos. Through IJ Scan Utility you point scans at a folder, an email attachment, or a searchable PDF. The push-scan function reverses the flow, so you press a button on the printer and the file lands on the computer, provided the utility is installed and running there.

One limitation deserves a plain warning. There is no document feeder, so a 30-page contract means 30 trips to the glass. If you scan stacks regularly, pairing this driver with NAPS2 at least speeds up the save-and-append part of the routine, since it talks to ScanGear directly and batches pages into a single PDF as you go.

Wireless setup and the not-printing problem

The Canon PIXMA MG6620 connects over Wi-Fi or USB, and the driver installer handles both paths. During a wireless install, it searches the network for the printer, so the printer must already be joined to the same router, something you do once from its 3-inch touchscreen. After that, jobs travel over the network without any cable.

Most “detected but not printing” cases trace back to a port mismatch, where the driver points at an old address after the router reassigned one. Reinstalling the Canon PIXMA MG6620 Driver rebuilds that link, which is why a fresh installation fixes stalled queues more often than any amount of restarting. I

f you run several machines from the same family, the packages stay separate, and a household with different models needs each one, whether that is the Canon PIXMA MG5720 Driver for the smaller sibling or the Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver for the step-up model.

Conclusion

The Canon PIXMA MG6620 Driver is not optional equipment, it is the difference between a plastic box that blinks and an all-in-one that prints double-sided documents, produces borderless photo prints, and scans to searchable PDFs. Install the core driver and IJ Scan Utility, skip the decorative extras, and the printer does everything its hardware promises.

It suits owners of this specific model who are setting up a new computer, recovering from a stalled print queue, or finally getting the scanner side to appear. Keep the installer within reach, because the day the queue jams, running it again is the fastest way back to working paperwork.