When you install must be said that I ([x64 / 7/7 x64 / Vista / Vista64 / XP Windows 8/8] MX450 Series Mini Master Setup) have the appropriate installation file directly from the homepage of Canon downloaded after a pair Users here had the newsletter reports in Forum of difficulties with the software on the supplied CD (WLAN Verbindug failed) !!
In fact, the version that I have taken from the Internet, everything went really quickly and easily: my Wi-Fi router can not view namely set to "SSID visible," so that the printer then in the automatic installation via Wi Fi this can not find !! So it helps to just using the USB cable (plug in until we asked the software!) And this setup software that a capable causes the settings for the WLAN manually specify (SSID name and password for the Wi note beforehand!). The installation took (including unpacking and installation) approx 1/2 hour on the PC with Win7 / 32bit.
Every PC you want to connect to the printer in addition to, (must) can then be configured with the same setup file, with the difference but that from now on, the printer is automatically detected by the software, because already connected to the WLAN through the first Installation! No USB cable longer necessary. So Kinderleicht if you've made the first printer configuration.
The printer itself is a bit noisy, often leads so called "cleaning" the corresponding loud noises give (and consume ink, of course ...), not nice. The printed image is neat, scans satisfactory copies in decent quality and schnell.X
The fax function: actually everything worked right away, but I wanted to turn off the automatic fax reception .... not that easy. On the tiny printer display you do not understand what all you want to set (abbreviations instead clear admissions), then Ichin am the "Canon Utilities" against Agen have been installed on the PC, and called the online manual, and I have at least one some explanations found what I like may mean these abbreviations and set the FAX Software! Really complicated and unnecessary I think, why not clearly perform a fax setting in the printer installation ??? A secret the whole!
Am Trotzedm with the printer first satisfied, (fax / copier Scan /) was immediately recognized by all of my programs and entered as the default printer. Scanning from the printer to the PC goes amazingly fast vonstatten, quite the opposite of my old HP Officejet. Druckgeschindigkeit is also perfectly acceptable for a home office printer.
4 of 5 stars because of the complicated (unnecessarily complicated) fax setting, otherwise it would have been all 5 stars from me.