New MacPro refuses to print

Hi guys,
my newly purchased MacPro is refusing to print over the network at my office. We have several Canon copiers, and HP printers, as well as a BestColor Rip powering 2 epson 9600s. For the life of me i can't seem to get this machine to print to any of them. Looking at Cups i see a series of "The process "fierycupsfilter" terminated unexpectedly on signal xx" errors everytime i send something.
I've tried the standard, including permission repairs, reseting the printing system, and have also tried the workaround that fixed the intel imacs, which was to copy the /use/libexec/cups/filter/fierycupsfilter from an older (PPC) machine over to the new box. All to no avail, as i still cannot print.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me to try? While printing from this machine is not essential (it's the AV production machine), it's incredibly annoying.
TIA for any guidance you may have.
john
  Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Can you tell us what protocols (LPD, IPP, etc?) you've tried? Are they all postscript printers? When you ADD in printer setup, does it find the model (which means it finds a PPD)?
If you tried LPR or IPP, did you enter the printer/RIP's internal queue name in Printer Setup?

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