Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver

Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver is the software that lets a computer print to and scan from Canon’s six-ink photo all-in-one. The package installs the printer driver, the scanner driver and the scanning utility that sits between you and the flatbed, and it is the difference between a machine the computer merely sees and one that exposes every paper type, photo mode and scan setting the hardware supports. Without it, the system falls back on a generic driver that prints plain pages and little else.

The MG7720 is built for photographs. Alongside the usual four colours it adds a pigment black for sharp text and a grey ink that smooths black-and-white photos and gradients, prints up to 9600 x 2400 dpi, handles borderless prints and double-sided pages automatically, and prints directly onto printable CDs and DVDs through a tray. Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver is what unlocks those modes from the computer.

One thing to know before installing is that the model has been retired, so the driver no longer receives updates, though the final release still installs and works on current systems.

What the driver package installs

The full package, called MP Drivers, bundles the printer driver and the scanner driver in one installer, and it is the one to choose over the bare printer driver. A setup routine walks through the connection, USB, Ethernet or wireless, and adds the printer once found. The scanner side installs TWAIN and WIA drivers, so any program that scans can reach the flatbed, not only the bundled utility.

For wireless use, the computer and the printer have to sit on the same network. The printer joins through its 3.5-inch touchscreen, and the installer then searches for it. After a new router, the printer has to rejoin, and reinstalling the driver with the network option is the reliable way to relink it.

Owners of the lower models in the range will find the same approach in the driver for Canon’s MG6620.

Printing photos and borderless pages

The print dialog is where the driver earns its place. Paper type sets how much ink lands and how it is laid down, so choosing glossy photo paper rather than plain paper makes the biggest single difference to a print.

Borderless printing fills the sheet edge to edge, sliders adjust colour balance and intensity, and a greyscale photo mode uses the grey ink for neutral black-and-white prints without a colour cast.

Duplex and disc printing

Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver handles automatic duplex printing, turning the page over for you on plain paper. Disc printing uses a tray that slides into the front of the machine, and the layout software supplied with the package designs the label and aligns it to the disc’s inner and outer rings.

Getting the disc tray alignment right on the first test disc saves a spoiled stack later, and photos meant for the disc can be tidied first in an old Canon photo organiser.

Scanning with IJ Scan Utility

IJ Scan Utility is the scanning front end. Its buttons scan a document, a photo or a custom job in one click, with Auto Scan detecting what is on the glass and choosing settings to match, and Stitch combining two scans of an oversized page into one image.

Output goes to JPEG, PNG, TIFF or PDF, with multi-page PDFs built by scanning page after page, and text recognition turns a scanned page into editable text.

Network scanning, and when it fails

Network scanning through Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver works over wireless or Ethernet, and a scan can also be started from the printer’s own screen and sent to the computer. When the utility reports that it cannot communicate with the scanner while printing works fine, the cause is usually a firewall or security suite blocking the scanner’s network traffic, or the utility pointing at a different device on the network.

For batch scanning with more control over the output, a standalone scanning tool drives the same flatbed through its TWAIN driver.

Conclusion

Canon PIXMA MG7720 Driver is essential for anyone who owns this printer and wants its photo quality, disc printing and scanner rather than a bare generic connection. Photographers printing at home, families making CD labels and anyone scanning documents to PDF will get the full machine only once the MP Drivers package is in place.

With the model retired, this is the last driver it will ever get, so keep the installer for future reinstalls. Choose the full package, allow the scan utility through the firewall, and redo the wireless setup whenever the router changes.