No printers show up despite reinstalling drivers

Hi Everyone,
I am stumped on this one.  I recently bought a Canon MF8080CW colour laser multifunctional printer and I had everything working except for the wireless scanning so I decided to try the "reset printers" option thinking it would reset the print drivers back to default settings - WRONG.  I took out all my print drivers from my printer list.  I thought - okay, no biggie just re-install the latest Canon print drivers....  nope, NOTHING.  I tried installing a HP print drivers just to see if it was a problem specifically with the Canon drivers and that didn't show up either, I even went as far as re-installing the mac os with print drivers selected..  still nothing!
I'm running mac os x 10.6.8 on Macbook 2 GHz Intel Core duo w/2gb Ram and 300gb drive with about 20gb of unused space.
I've been a mac user since Mac OS 7.0 and I'm out of ideas, any help would GREATLY be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Disconnect all peripherals from your computer.
Boot from your install disc & run Repair Disk from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963 and restart your computer.  If still having issues, try the suggestions mentioned in article Snow Leopard & Lion Printer solutions and suggestions. And install the  Gutenprint and Gimp-Print for Mac OS X (10.2 and later) drivers if all else fails.  Make sure you repair permissions and restart your computer after you install.

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