The Canon PIXMA iP2580 printer model has an exceptional speed that augments its wholesome beauty. The body is sleek, with an arc-line design that is peculiar to the PIXMA photo printer series. It also produces a superb text quality of print output in black on white for exceptional beauty. Whereas, it has the Bubble Jet Print technology with a serial format for printing. The output resolution is also about 4800 x 1200 dots per inch (dpi) for horizontal and vertical output.
Canon PIXMA iP2580 Driver for Windows
Supported OS: Windows 8.1 (32-bit), Windows 8.1 (64-bit), Windows 8 (32-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit), Windows Vista (64-bit), Windows XP (32-bit), Windows XP (64-bit)
| Filename | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Printer Driver for Windows Vista 8 8.1 32 bit and XP.exe (Recommended) | 8.80 MB | |
| Printer Driver for Windows Vista 8 8.1 64 bit.exe (Recommended) | 9.04 MB | |
| Printer Driver Add-On Module for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit.exe | 29.69 MB | |
| Or Download Canon PIXMA iP2580 driver from Canon Website | ||
Driver and Software for Mac OS
Supported OS: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, OS X Lion 10.7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5
| Filename | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|
| CUPS Printer Driver for MAC OS X 10.5 to 10.8.dmg | 11.21 MB | |
| Printer Driver for MAC OS X 10.5.dmg | 5.94 MB | |
| Or Download Canon PIXMA iP2580 driver from Canon Website | ||
Driver for Linux
Linux (32-bit), Linux (64-bit)
| Filename | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|
| IJ Printer Driver for Linux – Source file | 7.07 MB | |
| IJ Printer Driver for Linux – rpm Common package | 40.19 kB | |
| Or Download Canon PIXMA iP2580 driver from Canon Website | ||
This Canon print technology supports a total of 1472 nozzles, where there are 320 for black and 384 each for C/M/Y. Simultaneously, the minimum ink droplet size by volume is about 2 picolitre for cyan, magenta, and yellow printing. But when printing in black, it has a minimum ink droplet of 30 picolitres. The printing rate for monochrome mode is about 22 pages per minute (ppm) on an A4 plain paper.
However, printing in color is up to 17 ppm, while photo printing on photo paper is 55 seconds. The bordered page allows a print width of 203.2 mm, which is equivalent to 8 inches. On the flipside, borderless printing is up to 216 mm, which is almost the same as 8.5 inches. The top margin is 38.3 mm, while the bottom margin is 31.2 mm. The Canon PIXMA iP2580 supports several media types, including plain paper, super white paper, high-resolution paper, and photo paper pro.
Others are photo paper plus glossy, photo paper plus semi-gloss, glossy photo paper, and the glossy photo paper (everyday use). These variations also come in different standard sizes as well as custom sizes, including A4, A5, B4, B5, and others. It also supports legal, letter, and some custom sizes for diverse purposes of quality prints.