Canon ip4300 printer not working since restore of back up to replacement hard drive

I have submitted a question to Canon, but thought I'd see if anyone has had this issue here.
I had to replace my hard drive due to a failure.
Then I restored my iMac from a TimeMachine backup. That worked fine.
Now though the Canon ip4300 printer I was using successfully before the new hard drive and restore is no longer working. The print status window says i need to install software to use this printer.
However, it definitely worked before the restore.
Canon does not appear to have any drivers for OSX 10.10. However, I was hoping to get this older printer to work again since it was working on Monday just fine before the drive failure.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

What system were you running before the drive failed?
First try the fix discussing in this Apple document: OS X Yosemite: Reset the printing system
Next, if you have Time Machine backups try the following;
1 - go to the HD/Library/Printers folder and select the Canon folder.
2 - enter Time Machine and go back to just before the drive crashed.
3 - select the Canon folder and restore it.
4 - run Disk Utility to repair disk permissions.
5 - try the printer.
This is what I had to do when I upgraded my system for my older Canon i850 printer.

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