Canon MG5250 wireless printing

I have a canon MG5250 and since changing to BT Infinity I have been unable to print wirelessly. I have assigned the printer a static IP address outside of the DHCP range. I have entered the passkey on the printer and it has connected to the BT Home Hub. However, I cannot see the printer on the wireless network, I cannot ping the printer from any of the other devices on the wireless network.
Anyone else had a similar problem and have any suggestions on how to solve this?

I had a problem like this and the answer was that my Canon printer (an IP7250) supports IPv6 as does my laptop, but the BT Home Hub does not.
Solution based on Windows 7
In Diivices & Printers, right click the printer icon and select Properties
Go to the Wireless tab
Under Webpage hopefully there is a web link to your printer clicking on this will connect to the CAnon Network Configuration.
Go to Advanced and Network settings
There is a button to Disable IPv6
and hay presto everything started to work.
From time to time I still have to turn the printer off and on to refresh the connection.

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Manchester wrote:
Hiya, my old fella had BT Infinity installed last Friday, and is due to have his router upgraded / exchanged next week.
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