Ip printing and drivers

Hello.
I've got a Macbook, an ADSL router/print manager and a Canon Pixima ip5200.
I've installed the driver and the printer works via the USB port. My problem is that I cannot select the correct driver when I try and set it up to work via the router.
I add a printer, give it the correct IP address then I select it in the printer setup utility, click the printer setup button and try to select the right driver and the driver is not there. I try the other option and attempt to find the driver on my Mac but I can't find it.
I can print to it but the colours are wrong and text is faint.
Does anyone know where I'm going wrong? I'd be most grateful for any advice.
Cheers
Dave

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news -
Network printing/Windows printing only works with a driver that was meant for network printing. To use the OS X built-in CUPS network choices, you need a CUPS driver. For postscript printers, it's not an issue, because postscript is the native output of OS X, and can easily be routed to the various choices in Printer Setup.
Non-postscript printers are Very Different. Except for Brother, no manufacturer has provided CUPS drivers. Instead, what you get are Carbonized, OS9 legacy drivers, that have the comm protocol written into the driver (mostly USB). They can only print via local connection.
**Exception - when printing via an Airport/Bonjour enabled print server, where the software does a port redirection, USB output from the Mac gets routed to the USB port on Airport Express/Extreme.
The only CUPS driver available for your Canon is from:
http://www.printfab.net
Then, after you have the driver, to setup for the print server you need to carefully read the manual to decide which protocol(s) are supported and then enter the right info into Printer Setup. The IPP and LPD protocols both require a device-specific queue name (also called port name), which should be in the manual. HP Jetdirect doesn't use queue name. Common queue names are L1, lp, P1 etc.

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