10.6.8 Canon printer sharing

Hello,
I'm the head of IT for a non-profit and we're trying to share our Canon MF6530 between our two Mac Pros running 10.6.8. We're on a wireless network, with the Canon connected to ComputerA via USB and using Bonjour to share it wih ComputerB. ComputerA prints perfectly using Canon's UFRII drivers, but ComputerB will not print at all, and the computer hangs for 30 seconds any time the shared printer is selected. Once I select "Print" the job seems to send and resolve, but the printer does nothing. It does not error out.
We've spent hours talking to AppleCare and to Canon on this issue. Canon maintains that since the driver functions on ComputerA, the issue is Apple's networking. AppleCare won't troubleshoot network connections and walked me through the usual power cycling, permisisons repair, etc, before considering the issue outside of their scope. Currently the only "workaround" we have is to move one of the Executive DIrectors' desk across the room so the USB cable reaches it!
I've seen similar discussions before, but they've all seemed to revolve around printing from a Windows computer or sharing from a Windows computer, or even using a dedicated Print Server which don't apply here. We've been running circles around this thing for about a month now and I've got both directors breathing down my neck for an answer ASAP.
Help!
Thanks,
Adam

Hello Adam.
From my experience I suggest this is a fault of the Canon UFR2 driver. For a time it was possible to print with the UFR2 driver via a shared Mac connection. But this changed at some point - from memory it was when the UFR2 v2.0 was released.
Canon has just released UFR2 v2.40. If you have not already tried this latest version then I suggest you give it a shot. Hopefully this issue has been resolved with this latest driver.
I also remember somone having some minor success with using Generic Postscript on the "client" Mac. The theory is that the Mac sharing the connection converts the incoming PS file to UFR2. I'm not in a situation to test this to be sure but it may also be worth your time to check.

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