Canon MFC4350 Network Printing, or Lack Therein

Hi folks. Long time reader, first time poster.
I have a Canon MFC 4350 attached to my PC. My wife has a Mac Mini G4 running OS X 10.5.8, that I'm trying to use to print to the Canon.
After having tried about 25 different times to get it to connect, print, or even acknowledge that I exist, I get one of three results:
1) Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Oogots. The printer appears to add in System Preferences, no problem, but when I go to print something, nothing happens. I usually get this result when trying to use a generic driver, either PostScript or PCL.
2) I get an Error -50. This usually happens when I try to add a printer the old-fashioned way, including specifying the model number.
I have downloaded the drivers from the Canon site, but I've never once had any luck with any manufacturer's drivers working that I downloaded from a site for a situation like this...
Any ideas? TIA.

Hi there and welcome to Apple Discussions.
The MF4350 uses Canon's UFR2 driver. The machine doesn't support the PCL or PostScript printer languages. The Mac version of the UFR2 driver does not work with a shared Windows connection using the SMB protocol. The Mac needs to be able to have a direct connection to the printer. So you will need to look at some other method of connecting both computers to the printer. Does your model have an Ethernet port or does it only have USB?
Pahu

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