Canon i9900 - no new drivers work to connect to Vista shared printer

I've spent 3 frustrating days trying to print to the Canon i9900 which is connected to my Vista PC and shared. On the Mac print queue it shows it is printing but on the Vista printer window, the status is SPOOLING and goes no further. Everything is correctly set on both sides, permissions, etc. I have tried every new updated driver from MAC and from Canon. The only print driver that does work is the Canon BJC-8500 but the document is 70% its regular size and the color is awful. I even installed the Snow Leopard update.
I guess that leaves me to continue printing thru Parallels/Vista for now until there's a better solution. I doubt it. Has anyone had any success sharing on a Windows network with this printer? Any help or ideas is greatly appreciated.

You have done some good research. One more thing - the driver from Canon was written to support direct USB printing only. You need a CUPS driver to use the various protocols available in the CUPS printing system in OS X. Look for CUPS drivers for your model here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
http://www.printfab.net/
Try Gutenprint first, but your model might not be in there.

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