Aperture and Canon Pixma MP620

Hi All,
this time have some problems with Aperture that I'm just using since few days. My problem is the following: when i try to print a picture using my MP620 it produces images with strange vertical stripes (especially visible near the black areas) that affects all kind of print format.
This issue doesn't happen in iphoto that prints without problems the same images (so printer problems are discarded).
I use sRGB on my camera and the same is for my monitor: I've also calibrated it again to be more sure (so Color Sync settings problems are discarded too).
I've read somewhere that the output bits available could be at the origin of this problem. My printers specifications about color depht are the following:
grey depht 16 bit (internally)
grey depht 8 bit (externally)
color depht 48 bit (internally)
color depht 24 bit (externally)
I've got an Intel with Snow Leopard and my printer's drivers are all updated to Snow.
Hope that some Guru here could help me!
Ciao,
Mariano
P.s.: Have the same problem with Lightroom2 but the stripes are less visible (printer output was set to 16 bit)

Hi All,
just to update the community: I've made a rollback of the printer's drivers (I was just using the Snow Leopard ones) to the old Leopard version and now Aperture seems printing perfectly! I think this is the first case someone is answered his question by hiself!:-)
Bye bye
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