Printer difficulties...

Here's my story. I have a wireless printer (a Pixma MP620B to be exact) I used to be able to easily wirelessly print from my MacBook over Wi-Fi. Then, the Wi-
Fi started getting slow so I had a new modem installed. After this, the printer lost contact with both my MacBook and my Windows 7 PC. I did some reasearch and foind out that this printer only works wirelessly over 802.11b/g, and my new modem runs on 802.11n. I decided that I can just set up a wire connection between the printer and MacBook. I purchased a double-sided USB to connect my MacBook and printer. Once connected, though, both my Mac and PC think the printer is just another hard drive. To be more specific, when I plug my printer into my MacBook, I notice that in Finder a new device appears in the sidebar called EasySuite. Clicking EasySuite shows me three files: autorun.inf, EasySuite.exe, and GO! Bridge. This just supports the fact my Mac thinks the printer is a hard disk. Also, trying to launch GO! Bridge just diplays a message titled "Remote computer is not connected or GO! Bridge is not running".
That's all the info I have. I don't know if I need to download a driver for the printer. I don't think I should need to since I used to be able to send prints to this exact printer wirelessly over a different wireless network. I have found no way of getting this printer connected to a wireless network. Is USB even an accepable way to connect a printer to a computer? Please give me any advice or links that you think will help. Thanks

You will need to contact Canon if you cannot find such a driver on Apple's printer drivers website and the Gutenprint and Gimp-Print for Mac OS X (10.2 and later) website.

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Edited by: Andrew Barnard on Jul 1, 2010 4:58 PM
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