Both Canon Ink Jet Printers are printing equally horribly

I have three printers. A Canon S-9000, Canon iP6700, and Brother Color Laser HL4040. Although I don't usually use the Brother for photos, I did print one as a test and color looks a lot like what is on my monitor. Both Canon ink jets are printing so poorly it looks like some sort of wild posterization art. The facial tones are watermelon green. In the last week, I have tried everything I can think off. I started from scratch in the Print Preferences and deleted both printers and brought them back in and downloaded the newest drivers from Canon. I did notice that my only option was "Print with Canon IJ Printer" on the window under Name/Location/Print Using. Then when you open the Print Queue and click the blue "INFO" button and then click the Driver Tab, Print Using:the radial button after that where you would choose a driver is grayed out. Not sure if that was always so, since I really never have had a problem printing before. Not sure when or how I got in this mess. I have been on 10.5.6 for a while now and can't think of anything that has changed. It has been a couple of weeks since I have printed a photo. All the photos have been off slightly since going to Leopard, but this is more than slightly. I am using genuine Canon inks. All the ink levels are fine and the nozzle checks look fine. All colors are printing well. It's not mechanical and both printers are printing equally horrific. It doesn't matter if I print from Photoshop CS, iPhoto, Canon DPP, or Preview. However... yesterday I downloaded a different app to try to print from called Easy Photoprint and I printed one 4x6 that was almost acceptable except it was landscape mode and part of the photo didn't get on the paper but then the next one was back to the awful printing and I can't duplicate the one good one but it was enough to let me know for sure it's not mechanical or ink related. I have messed with all the usual settings in Photoshop but it can't be that since printing out of iPhoto and Preview produce identical results. What am I missing here?
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I bought a Canon i960 with my G5 in early 2004. Both were poor purchases. The G5 because I spent several hundreds of dollars to have Apple replace the cpu which did not solve the problems I was having (and I have been using Macs since 1984). The Canon printer stopped working after some 2.5 years because the waste ink tank was filled. It costs almost half of the original purchase price to have it serviced. Canon does not clearly tell you that this will happen, and I had average use of my printer. All Canon will do for you is to offer a discount on another printer. Canon makes good printers, but I recommend that you consider another manufacturer, and read the small print to determine how long it will last according to your particular use.
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