Printing to a Windows printer over a home network

Help please ! I have a Canon Pixma iX4000 attached to a Windows 7 64-bit laptop. I want to print from my Apple iMac running Snow Leopard OSX 10.6. I have tried Samba, LPD and variants of printer definitions e.g. smb://servername/printer name,. Also tried URL of the server instead of the server name all to no avail. I can access the server hard disk but not the printer. Is the problem the 64-bit O/S o nthe Windows machine and if so any thoughts on how to get round this prolem? I use Prefernces to add a printer so presumably need to add the 64-bit Mac driver at this time. Where should I install it?

As Greg has mentioned, the Canon driver on the Mac cannot be used to print via a Windows share. Normally Gutenprint would be the best option as it is free. However the iX4000 is not listed as a supported model and you could spend a long time finding another model of Canon - Gutenprint driver that does work correctly with the iX4000. So your best option is to use [PrintFab|http://www.printfab.net>, which does list the iX4000 as a supported model. Note that PrintFab does cost €49 but there is a 30 day trial so at least you can make sure you are happy with it first.
Also, the Windows 7 PC being 64bit has nothing to do with the problem. If you were using a 32bit PC then you would have to install the 32bit driver to the Windows 7 PC. This is known as a Point & Print connection which uses the RPC protocol. The Mac connects to Windows via SMB and thus the Windows queue is simply a path to the printer. Windows doesn't interact with the spool file.

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