Canon PIXMA 630 & Snow Leo 10.6.1

Hello to everybody,
Canon mp630 printer is connected to my iMac. My mac is connected via wi-fi ad-hoc to a PC running win xp sp3. If i print from iMac - everything is ok, but if i try to print from my PC - nothing happens.
For a second printer status is "busy" and nothing more. When i was using Leo(10.5.8) - everything was OK
If i browse a queue from my PC it says "unable to connect to printer". While installing the shared printer Win said, that printer server hasn't got suitable driver for Win XP.
What can I do? Drivers are the latest.

I have a problem going the other way, in other words printing from a Mac to an MP630 USB wired to a Vista PC. I posted re this at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2165860&tstart=0
I agree it must be a driver issue. Canon have said they don't "support cross platform drivers". A Printfab driver will probably work for you but they aren't cheap http://www.printfab.net/. I'm sorry not be more helpful.

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In reading your post I'd be curious to see the cups error log. Given that the Gutenprint drivers would not print also, I would say that something is wrong with the core printing system. The log would show which filter is causing the spooler to stop.
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Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
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