NO printer driver works after reinstalling OSX, including pdf

I can't get my computer to print to ANYTHING including to PDF ever since I reinstalled OSX. I have a canon printer and put the drivers in every library I could see (the user one and the non user one?) but it isn't showing up for setting up a printer, AND it's saying I can't even print to pdf.

dreadlobster wrote:
I am having a similar problem on a mac mini. I recently had a crash, clean installed OSX from disc, updated everything (10.4.10), then after a few days, nothing prints, not on my canon ip 4300). i cannot open print & fax preferences. when i try i get this message "You cannot open Print & Fax preferences pane on this computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version." i would like to not have to clean install again as it takes me at least a day to get everything back on.
I'd run Disk Utilities and repair disk (not just permissions) if I were you.
And you don't have to do a 'clean install', you could just do an Archive & Install instead. But I'd do that only after checking with DU.

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