Canon MP 700 - problems printing from Leopard

I have a Canon MP 700 printer and was using it happily until I upgraded to Leopard. I visited a whole bunch of forums in search of a solution and tried to "trick" my MacBook into printing by attempting to piggy back ride on other Canon drivers, but nothing works. Most drivers don't work because there is no communication between my MacBook and the printer, it just gives me an error message. When using the Canon PIXMA MP780 - Gutenprint v.5.1.3 there is communication between the two as the job is transmitted and processed, but the image quality is very poor (the colors are off, mostly yellow and red lines instead of a complete picture). Does anybody know if Canon or Apple are coming out with a Leopard compatible driver for the MP 700? I would really like to avoid having to buy a new printer.
Thanks for any and all advice you may have. With gratitude - Anna

Looking at the Canon Australia web site, there is no printer driver for Mac OS X, let alone for 10.5. So it looks like you will have to persevere with Gutenprint or you could purchase PrintFab (www.printfab.net) which does list the MP700 as a supported printer.
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