Introduction

For those of you who don’t know, Student Finance England provide free printers to more or less all disabled students via their Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) funding. The printer they provide is a Canon PIXMA TR4755i (or at least, it was for me).

Printers are known for being rather unreliable pieces of technology, particularly on Linux (although, historically, I’ve honestly found printers to work much more reliably and without need for troubleshooting on Linux than Windows). So I was quite concerned when the government sent me a free printer, that I would not be able to use it. Luckily, after a few short hours of wrangling things, I managed to get it working via USB (I’ve not tried network printing, but will update this post once I do). I wanted to make this post to save people time if you are also a disabled student, or happen to have this model of printer for another reason.