Canon iRC3080-J1 – won't print

We have a Canon iRC3080-J1 printer networked andused by about 20 users. It's not shared through a server but working as a "standalone" printer.
This far it has been workin ok, but a a couple of weeks ago it just stopped working from my workstation. No one else has problems with printing (all workstations are MacPros with 10.6 so thery're quite similarly configured) but when I try to print, I get the message telling that the printer driver has been installed incorrectly and it should be installed again or I should ask help from the manufacturer.
So I've reinstalled the driver several times, no help. I've called Canon; they told me to reinstall the driver and if it won't work then I should do a clean install of OS X. So no help - I won't reinstall the OS, all the programs and configure the machine; I suppose that if I use time machine or migration assistant, the problem comes along with the restored data.
So any ideas how to get the printer working without a clean OS install and manual data and setting restoration?

There was no official driver for Snow Leopard for the imagePASS-J1. So the procedure for 10.6 is to download and install the J1 driver for 10.5 and then to run the Snow Leopard update.
From reading the post it sounds like the update has failed - that message is typical for the 10.5 driver on 10.6. So you could look at applying the 10.6 update again.
If that doesn't help then I suggest you delete the existing printer in Print & Fax and then trash the PS3 folder in HD > Library > Printers > Canon. Then you can install the J1 driver again followed by the 10.6 update.
Also, just to check that the printing system is not the cause, on your Mac you can create another print queue to the Canon but this time using Generic Postscript in the Print Using menu. If this prints then it does point more at it being a driver issue rather than an internal print system error.

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