Help! my printer no longer works after 10.4.10 upgrade

I have a canon pixma ip4200 printer, worked fine for 2 years. Since I upgraded to 10.4.10 my ibook can't find it. I've reinstalled the canon latest driver, setup utility, checked my usb ports (both fine) and cable, tried disk utility on my hard drive, tried the native printer setup utility, all to no avail. Anyone have any ideas? I'm terribly vexed! thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Printers can be a real headache sometimes. You might see if Cannon has a support site that can help you with this. All of my HP's worked fine after the 10.4.10 update. But when I got the MBP, which is also running 10.4.10, my 1022 LaserJet didn't install the same, and shows the generic printer icon instead of the LaserJet icon. Sigh. But at least it works.
Did you uninstall the previous driver? Sometimes that is recommended before installing a new one. Did you try uninstalling the printer and then reinstalling it?
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