Canon printer and Snow Leopard

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and have now spent up to 8 hours trying to get my Canon MX 340 working again. I checked the printer log and it said that the printmanagerfailed, I found a topic here about the same problem and it stated to go into system preferences and right click the canon printer and to select reset printing system. Well I did that and it wiped out all my printers so needless to say that didn't work. Now I can't get it setup at all. I have reloaded all of the drivers and software and it isn't even showing up in my system preferences so I can't add it. I am pulling my hair out and really really need some help. HELP!

Why would I go to HP printer support, it is a canon printer and yes I did download Canon's driver, what a joke. I have found some information on this forum but so far no good. At least I now have it showing up in systems preferences but still not working. I wished I had checked all this b4 upgrading since I may not have done it. I have downloaded the Apple supplied driver so if anyone out there knows what to do now I still need help.

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Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
When you select to add the printer, if it does not appear in the Default view of the Add Printer browser then there could be a problem with the MP510, especially since you have already tried a new USB cable.
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- trying a different USB port on the Mac
- resetting the printing system (described below) and trying to add the MP510 again
- with the MP510 connected to the USB port, opening System Profiler and checking the Hardware > USB section
If none of the above helps then please reply...
Pahu
*How to Reset the Printing System*
1. Open System Preferences > Print & Fax
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Hello Susan and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Unfortunately the Canon Mac drivers have never worked correctly with the wireless print servers. I tested a Dlink model some years ago and while the Windows drivers for the same model would work fine, the Mac driver would always fail.
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