New Canon Pixma MP450 Networked????

Ok...I've got three Macs in the house: dual 1.25 MDD upstairs, iMac in my son's room, and a 12" Powerbook. I've got everything set up using a US Robotics MaxG Router/Print Server. Everything works great including sharing the Canon MP450 from the main MDD upstairs system in the office.
Well, I started reading about the print server part of the router and decided that it would be a better idea to have it hooked up that way instead of having the upstairs MDD heater always on when we need to print. I set the printer up straight to the USB of the router/print server. The problem is that when i go to set up the printers on each system, there isn't a PPD for this printer. It always wants to pick a generic....The system can see the printer but just doesn't do anything...I guess i'm asking, can I download the PPD for this Canon? I've already updated the router to the latest firmware and printer dirver...
Thanks much,
Robert

The limitation to standard networking is the Canon driver. It was written to support USB only.
I think www.printfab.net is your best hope for a network-capable (CUPS) driver, but your model isn't yet listed there.

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