Erreonously did 'Reset Printing System..."

Hello Mac Friends
I did a 'Reset Printing System..." and thus lost all the Presets in the printing dialogue (like Canon papers, my customized settings etc.). There's only "Standard" anymore
I think there is a pref file which I could restore from my daily backup, but which one?
I tried a few and also was searching in the forum with no success so far.
Thank you very much for help!
Donat
G4 1.25 Dual, 2 GB Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hello
I istalled new Canon drivers and made the settings anew; so this is solved

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