All was going well then communications error

Hi
I have a canon i865 which I had connected by usb to my Airport Extreme and it has worked fine for printing for the last 2 years. I was away for a couple of months and at that time had the printer connected via an Airport Express and it printed fine too.
Now I'm home again and have hooked up to the Airport Extreme again. Although Airport Extreme recognises the printer (it shows up on the summary when I check) and although it is there as a Bonjour printer, I keep getting a communications error.
Obviously it's nothing to do with new drivers or software etc etc as it was working fine 2 days ago and previously. I have switched everything off and on again as per the troubleshooting article on Mac help but no joy. Does anyone out there have a clue as to what I could try next?
Many thanks
WG

If you are the administrator, try using your browser to go to
http://127.0.0.1:631/
This will bring you to CUPS. Try to print a page from there. It solves the problem some times.
Another thing, do not dismiss driver problems, something gets screwed up and reinstalling the driver might do (it happened to me yesterday).
Deivy

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