Canon IP4300 Printer setup

Greetings,
I realize that printer setup settings have to be done while the printer is conected via USB and that seems to work fine except...
I have 2 logical printers pointing to my one physical printer. One for USB and one for wireless. The settings seem to only take place for the USB printer - i.e. I have an auto shutoff setting set - it seems to be ignored when I do wireless printing but works fine when the printer is connected via USB - is there anyway that the "usb" settings can be used by the "wireless" printer
Thanks,
Dean
MacBook Pro 15 inch - w8617.... Mac OS X (10.4.8)
MacBook Pro 15 inch - w8617.... Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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