10.5.7 and Canon printers

Has anyone else had connection problems with Canon printers following the installation of 10.5.7? With 10.5.6. on my Air I connected happily through Bluetooth with a Canon iP100. However once 10.5.7. was installed I kept getting error messages. I tried reloading software first from disc and then from Canon website. I also followed instructions from one site to clear everything out of hard disc and start again:no joy.
I have bought a new 2.13 (not for this reason!) and am keeping it on 10.5.6 until the fault is acknowledged and cured. It works perfectly with the iP100.

I, too, am having problems with printing photos on my printer (Canon iP4000) since getting the new iMac with OSX (10.5.7) and using Photoshop Elements 6. The Canon printer driver (and all my other data) were copied to my Mac by the techs at the Apple store from which I purchased the iMac. (I previousy had a Mac G4 with OSX 10.4.11 Panther.)
Photos that used to come out crystal clear and brilliant with the printer on the G4, now are faint with kind of a white veil. When I try to print in Elements, I get a message that says "Some PostScript specific print settings (Interpolation, Calibration, Encoding) will be ignored since you are printing to a non-PostScript printer." I really have no idea what that means. :-S
Text printing comes out fine, both from word processing documents and web pages. I am using the latest printer driver (4.8.3) for the iP4000 (probably 3 years old or so), and there are no new driver downloads available for it. I tried reinstalling the current driver, to no avail. I was, however, able to successfully download a new driver for my scanner.
Does anybody know if this means I need to get a new printer? If so, any suggestions on a good, relatively inexpensive one for Leopard and Elements 6 on the iMac?

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