hi everyone abby here and welcome back to my channel for tech tuesday or welcome if you're new
today i'm going to be showing you guys how to use the scanner
on the canon ts3420 printer and i'm going to show you how to scan using your computer using your
phone and then how to just scan documents using just the printer alone but before i get started
make sure to hit that subscribe button so you can stay tuned to all my new videos dropping weekly
and so you can help the channel grow so if you just got this printer and you want to set it up
i've gone ahead and done a full unboxing and set up video where i show you how to
do everything from load the ink the paper to actually set up the drivers on your computer
so if you want to see that you can find that in the top right or in the description below
alright guys so the first thing i'm going to show you how to do is how to print a scanned document
so you can just take any you know document or photo that you want to make a reproduction of
and print it directly from your printer without connecting it to your phone or your pc so what
i'm going to be printing today guys is this so i just drew a little happy face here so the first
thing you're going to want to do is turn on your printer guys alright so we're going to open up the
printer now guys and what we are going to do take our image we're going to put the paper face down
and we're going to line this up to the arrow in the corner here
so once you are done that we are going to go ahead put this down and then you are going to
go over here guys and you are either going to click the black or the color button depending
on if you want to print in black or if you want to print in color so when you're ready
just press you know the button that you need to i'm going to press the color one
and it's going to go ahead and print now
and here's the image that was printed from the scanned item guys so it's not as bright
because i did use a highlighter but it's the exact same shape guys the exact same size
hopefully you guys could see that so we did print it it printed in kind of like a
light greenish color not so much a highlighter yellow but
it did print the exact same image guys just not the exact same colors
all right guys now i'm going to show you how to scan a document and get it from your printer
to your pc and here i'm using my surface laptop 3. what you're going to need to do is download an app
canon inkjet smart connect app if you haven't already downloaded that
just go ahead and download it once again link is in the description it downloads from the
microsoft store guys so you're just going to want to follow the prompts and download that app here
all right guys so just open up the app so we're going to go over here to the scan button
and you're going to choose your paper type you're going to choose if you're
scanning a document or a photo i'm just going to leave these as is
so i did show you guys you know where to position the paper
when the paper is positioned inside of the printer you are now going to
come back on the app here so once you're ready go ahead and click that scan button
the printer is kind of doing its thing scanning
all right guys now coming over to my laptop we can see the image is scanned here so from here
you can go ahead you can save it as a pdf or a png or a jpeg and you can also rotate it you can crop
it if you want to do so and you can also do image correction if you do want to change you know the
coloring or you know anything else really here and once you are ready guys you just click save
save it as whatever you want wherever you want on your pc and the documents are good to go so
here it saved to this folder for me and this is what it looks like as a pdf guys so it was able
to you know save that perfectly guys it looks the exact same as it looked when i showed it to you
all right guys now i'm going to show you how to connect your smartphone to your printer
the first thing you're going to want to do is to download the canon print inkjet selfie
app so you're going to do that either in you know the google play store or in the apple store
so if you guys are having a hard time finding this i have put a link in the description below
so once you go ahead and download that app guys go ahead and open it up
so the first time you open it up you're probably going to see a
message that says search for available printers so go ahead and click search
so at this point if you guys have not already set up your printer meaning
if you haven't taken up the tape put in the ink cartridges the paper and all that stuff
you can go ahead and find my video at the top right and follow all of those steps
so we have done that so we're clicking close now my printer basically connected automatically guys
it's asking me to select an image i'm not going to do that i've already connected my printer to
the wi-fi when i set it up with my computer so it just connected to the app basically automatically
after i search for the printer but if your printer has not connected automatically if
it's not connected to your wi-fi yet you're going to go ahead and click on the icon at the top left
here the little printer and if your printer is not popping up here you can just click if printer
cannot be found at the bottom and here use auto connection which is kind of the easier way guys
so our printer does have this little connection button so we're going to click yes then you're
going to hold the button here for three seconds it's just right here below the power button and
after you do that you're going to click next and then your printer is going to pop up here guys
if for some reason it doesn't connect there you can go to you know the other connection method
and you can choose what kind of wireless router you have and go through these steps here you know
following these troubleshooting steps you should be able to connect your printer to your smartphone
all right guys now we are going to scan so once it's open you are going to go ahead and
click on scan and then you're going to go ahead and select the folder that you want
to save the scanned image or document in i'm going to save it to my downloads
so what we're going to do once again put the image we want to scan in here i'm going to
use this again that little happy face line it up once again with the arrow in the top left corner
we're going to go ahead and close it and now we are going to go ahead
on our phone and we are going to click the scan button
and the printer is going to start scanning momentarily
i will say the scanning is a little slow in terms of like you know speed but it works guys so i just
have to be a little patient all right guys so we can see it's already popped up on my phone here
and it's basically an exact replica here guys the yellow is a little bit less highlighter and
more of like a bright yellow but it's the exact same image here and i'm gonna go ahead and scan
like a random document i found so you guys can see what that looks like and this is showing up
as page two in the app because i'm continuing on the scanning session second page is definitely
taking longer than the first i am scanning you know a document does have more details in it
all right guys so here is the document you can see it's a little bit crooked which is my bad for not
you know lining it up straightly but it did scan the exact same thing here and it is nice and clear
this is the paperwork guys and when you guys are done you just click the exit button and
it saves everything and then you can go in your documents wherever you saved on your
phone and you can send them to someone wherever whatever you want to do with them at that point
so one thing i want to show you guys is if your paper is wrinkled you are going to see
some of that wrinkling when you do scan it um you know as i just showed you guys on my phone there
was a little bit of a shadow around this area in the document so that's something to keep in mind
i've had this for like over half a year now it's still going strong not giving me any issues
one thing i don't let you guys know that the ink definitely does run out quickly if you have a
lot of people using it alright guys that's all i have for today hope you find this video helpful
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