Is there a way to change the language of the driver interface for Canon Pixma printers? Which language is used seems to be determined by the language of the OS or the Windows localization settings. I really don't want that, I want to be able to set the language manually to my own liking, either during the driver installation or afterwards.

I have found a workaround for Pixma IP2770 where you edit the setup.ini file by replacing the language names and the DLL search paths with <SELECT> under the LANGUAGES section.

So instead of...

0000=<SELECT>
0001=Arabic,RES\STRING\IJInstAR.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstAR.dll
0804=Simplified Chinese,RES\STRING\IJInstCN.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstCN.dll
0404=Traditional Chinese,RES\STRING\IJInstTW.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstTW.dll
0005=Czech,RES\STRING\IJInstCZ.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstCZ.dll
0006=Danish,RES\STRING\IJInstDK.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstDK.dll
0007=German,RES\STRING\IJInstDE.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstDE.dll
0008=Greek,RES\STRING\IJInstGR.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstGR.dll
0009=English,RES\STRING\IJInstUS.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstUS.dll
000A=Spanish,RES\STRING\IJInstES.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstES.dll
000B=Finnish,RES\STRING\IJInstFI.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstFI.dll
000C=French,RES\STRING\IJInstFR.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstFR.dll
000E=Hungarian,RES\STRING\IJInstHU.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstHU.dll
0010=Italian,RES\STRING\IJInstIT.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstIT.dll
0011=Japanese,RES\STRING\IJInstJP.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstJP.dll
0012=Korean,RES\STRING\IJInstKR.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstKR.dll
0013=Dutch,RES\STRING\IJInstNL.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstNL.dll
0014=Norwegian,RES\STRING\IJInstNO.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstNO.dll
0015=Polish,RES\STRING\IJInstPL.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstPL.dll
0016=Portuguese,RES\STRING\IJInstPT.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstPT.dll
0019=Russian,RES\STRING\IJInstRU.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstRU.dll
001D=Swedish,RES\STRING\IJInstSE.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstSE.dll
001E=Thai,RES\STRING\IJInstTH.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstTH.dll
001F=Turkish,RES\STRING\IJInstTR.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstTR.dll
0021=Indonesian,RES\STRING\IJInstID.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstID.dll

You get....

0000=<SELECT>
0001=<SELECT>
0804=<SELECT>
0404=<SELECT>
0005=<SELECT>
0006=<SELECT>
0007=<SELECT>
0008=<SELECT>
0009=English,RES\STRING\IJInstUS.ini,RES\DLL\IJInstUS.dll
000A=<SELECT>
000B=<SELECT>
000C=<SELECT>
000E=<SELECT>
0010=<SELECT>
0011=<SELECT>
0012=<SELECT>
0013=<SELECT>
0014=<SELECT>
0015=<SELECT>
0016=<SELECT>
0019=<SELECT>
001D=<SELECT>
001E=<SELECT>
001F=<SELECT>
0021=<SELECT>

.... in case English is the preferred language. It's a way to force the installation program to only install the English language support.

IP2770 is a model for the Asian market, so if you want to check this out you need to go to the Canon India download page (for instance) to get the driver. Unfortunately this method is not possible with my IP4000. There is no driver even available for it to download for Windows Vista.

But is there really no way of changing the language of the UI in any normal way, you know... without having to hack it?

Besides, the driver for my printer comes with Windows Vista, so I don't even have to install any drivers. And little do I get the chance to set the language, knowing that the installation never happens.

Any ideas?...