CS4 Indesign Printing issues

Hi, We have a new Mac Pro Tower we just purchased with Snow Leopard 10.6.7. We are using Adobe Indesign CS4 Version 6.0.6. I have an Indesign project that I need to print to our Canon ImagePress C1 with a fiery. I go to File>Print, then it shows it's kind of preparing it to be sent to our printer. After about 30 seconds the printer window pops up and it says: spooling for about another 30 seconds and then the printer puts this job on pause. Below is the console logs from this users machine: Where you see "username" I removed the person's name for security.
06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Wrote 4816 bytes of print data...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] STATE: +connecting-to-device
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Looking up "192.168.64.17"...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Connecting to 192.168.64.17:515 for printer print
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Connecting to printer...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] STATE: -connecting-to-device
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Connected to printer...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Connected to 192.168.64.17:515 (IPv4) (local port 1022)...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] prtMarkerSuppliesLevel.1.1 = 4050
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] prtMarkerSuppliesLevel.1.2 = 1275
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] prtMarkerSuppliesLevel.1.3 = 1700
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] prtMarkerSuppliesLevel.1.4 = 1275
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] prtMarkerSuppliesLevel.1.5 = -2
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] ATTR: marker-levels=75,75,100,75,-1
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] lpd_command 02 print
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Sending command string (7 bytes)...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Reading command status...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] lpd_command returning 0
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Control file is:
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] H"Username"
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] P"Username"
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] J2011_Holiday_Layout.indd
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] ldfA517username.cor
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] UdfA517username.cor
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] N2011_Holiday_Layout.indd
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] lpd_command 02 139 cfA517username.cor
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Sending command string (27 bytes)...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Reading command status...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] lpd_command returning 0
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Sending control file (139 bytes)
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Control file sent successfully
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] lpd_command 03 4583404072 dfA517username.cor
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Sending command string (34 bytes)...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Reading command status...
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] lpd_command returning -1
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Backend returned status 1 (failed)
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] Printer stopped due to backend errors; please consult the error_log file for details.
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] End of messages
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] printer-state=5(stopped)
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] printer-state-message="/usr/libexec/cups/backend/lpd failed"
D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] printer-state-reasons=paused
This canon printer has worked seamlessly when we had Leopard 10.5 using CS4. It's only been since we received the new Mac Pro Tower. The Canon printer has a Fiery attached and we use the latest driver for that Fiery. All the images in this file are .tiff's. The user does have Pre-Flight on and the Print Preset: Custom, Printer: Canon Color Printer, PPD: Canon iPR Server T1 Ver.1.0. I set up the printer in the Print & Fax Dialog using the IP address, with LPD Protocol, Queue name blank (as we never had to really use one in the past). and Print Using the iPR Server T1 driver. Rebooted the Mac, ran disk utility from the CD. I have been working on this issue for a couple of days now and found many troubleshooting tips on the internet but none have worked. Is there something in the new OS X Snow Leopard that is not working with CS4 Indesign now? Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you!

What fonts are you using? Are they PS Type1 by any chance? The update to 10.6.7 has introduced some problems with the older Type 1 fonts. Do a Google search for Mac 10.6.7, Type 1 font problem to see some discussions.

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