Setting the Printer Monitor to Display the Device Status on the Taskbar

You can configure Printer Monitor to display the status of the device set as the monitoring target with the main icon in the Taskbar.

NOTE
To monitor the status of devices with the status display icon on the Taskbar, the following conditions must be met. The device information has been retrieved The device supports iW Desktop Supported Device or Standard MIB Device For information on retrieving device information in Desktop Monitor Setup, see the following. Preparing Device Monitoring in Desktop Monitor Setup When installing a Canon printer driver, do not change the status display settings. The default settings of Windows 7/Windows 8.1/Windows 10 restrict icons displayed in the Taskbar notification area. See the following to display the Printer Monitor icons in the Taskbar notification area. Displaying Icons on the Taskbar

NOTE

To monitor the status of devices with the status display icon on the Taskbar, the following conditions must be met.

The device information has been retrieved

The device supports iW Desktop Supported Device or Standard MIB Device

For information on retrieving device information in Desktop Monitor Setup, see the following.

Preparing Device Monitoring in Desktop Monitor Setup

When installing a Canon printer driver, do not change the status display settings.

The default settings of Windows 7/Windows 8.1/Windows 10 restrict icons displayed in the Taskbar notification area. See the following to display the Printer Monitor icons in the Taskbar notification area.

Displaying Icons on the Taskbar

Right-click

(Main) on the Taskbar, and select [Printer Monitor Settings].

[Printer Monitor Settings] is displayed.

Select the [Monitor the device status and display it on the Printer Monitor icon] check box.

Select the printer to monitor from the [Printer] pull-down list.

Click [OK].

The status of the device set as the monitoring target is displayed in the main icon in the Taskbar.

NOTE
For details on the status display, see the following. List of Status Icons of Printer Monitor If a device cannot be monitored because it has been deleted by another user, etc., restart Printer Monitor or set [Printer] again.