Mac Mini Can't Find my Printer Hooked Up Via Firewire?

My Canon i9900 printer has both USB 2.0 and FW400 ports. When I hooked it up to my Mac Mini via USB, it recognizes it fine. But when I tried to hook it up via a FW400 to FW800 adapter cable, it doesn't show up in the list of printers in System Pref's "Print & Fax." Not even when I do a search for "more printers." But when I check the Firewire port in the Mini's System Profiler, there it is listed as being connected, a Canon printer.
Thinking it may be a problem with my adaptor cable, I hooked it to an external FW400 HDD and turned it on. No problem, the HDD was immediately recognized and showed up on my desktop as an external firewire drive.
How can I get the Mini to recognize my printer hooked up to my FW800 port? I sure would like to free up one of my USB ports, as well as get better printer performance via firewire. Thanks.

Recognizing the printer over Firewire would require the proper class driver, which I'm guessing doesn't exist.
I seriously doubt there would be a speed increase using a FW interface. Printing is not that data intensive and the speed bottle neck would not be USB. USB hubs are not expensive if you need more ports.

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