Hi everybody.

I'm a graphic artist, and I use Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy.

I own a Canon Pixma PRO-200 large format printer. The problem is that it seems to only work with Windows. I have a Windows hard drive that I swap to when I need to use it, but this means I have to enter BIOS and change the boot order. The screen flashes on and off when I try this. It's maddening. Plus I just really despise Windows.

My question is, can I set up a Windows sandbox on my Linux system that works with my printer model, and how do I do this? I've tried using Wine but couldn't get the drivers for my printer to download.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

The normal situation is that once you install a Linux Distro (for example - Mint Victoria) on a machine with MS Windows pre-installed - then you will get a GRUB menu.

The GRUB menu allows you to toggle between MS Windows and one or many linux distros to boot into.
You don't need to toggle in bios.

You don't seem to have this scenario.

You seem to have a uefi/bios issue where linux GRUB menu does not know you have separate storage drives. With separate operating systems (i.e Windows).

1. Yes. You can create a virtual machine in Linux Mint. And then run a Windows OS in the virtual machine. And then operate your Canon printer which has the necessary drivers in the virtual Windows OS.

You will need to install a virtual machine program. Wine is specifically made to play PC games on Linux.
Wine is not made to run a MS Windows compatible printer on a linux distro.

Linux distros don't have all peripherals work out of the box like MS Windows.
So you need a dual boot system with Mint and MS Windows.
You need to transfer data from Mint to Windows so you can print from your Canon printer.

The important thing is you need to find out how to dual-boot from a GRUB screen and not from uefi/bios.

Right; that's what the OP said; they have two hard drives, one with Linux, the other with Windows.
Right; the OP already has the drivers in Windows. Creating a virtual machine that uses the hard drive where Windows is installed is what they asked.
Wrong; WINE is a compatibility layer for MANY Windows programs, not just games.
Wrong; Linux has most things work out of the box, but in this case, the printer is specialized, and you seem to be ignoring what the OP has already posted.

OP, if you can install the driver on Windows, you may want to search (on your Windows system), for a .PPD file that corresponds with that printer. That's the 'driver file' that you can copy to Mint and import into CUPS/set up a new printer using it, typically by copying it into the /usr/share/cups/model directory, then do your setup from there by choosing that driver file. That *MIGHT* work. Otherwise, I'd suggest getting your product key from your existing Windows installation, installing VirtualBox, and just 'installing' a new copy of Windows in it. Fairly trivial to do, and you can get the ISO images for Windows from Microsoft.