Before starting the first Please go to Canon's website to download the printer driver ir5000.

Downloading the driver:
http://www.usa.canon.com/html/download/imagerunner5000.html


From the list, download the appropriate driver. (e.g. If you are running Windows XP, download and run: PCL6V32W2KXP.exe)
Double click on the file, and unzip the files to a temporary directory.

Setting up the printer: