Printing to an iMac wired printer

Hello,
I have a wired printer connected to my iMac with a USB cable. I am able to print to this perfectly after the software update utility downloaded the printers driver.
I logged into my Mac Book Air which is on the same network as the iMac, only it is connected wirelessly, and I began trying to print to the printer connected to the iMac; it is a shared printer. The Mac Book Air finds the device on the network and attempts to acquire the drivers from the iMac but I get a message which says words to the effect of 'unable to acquire driver' or 'unable to communicate with source'. I find this to be an odd message because I am able to share all sorts of files between the two computers, yet when it comes to the iMac needing to provide a driver to the Mac Book Air, it fails spectacularly at doing this.
One thing that has made me disgruntled is the fact that I have a 3 year extended warranty for my iMac which entitles me to technical/customer support via the Express Lane telephone service; naturally I phoned Apple to ask why the shared printer cannot be utilised from my Mac Book Air and the representative responded with questions like "can you even print to a wired printer wirelessly over the same network from another device?". I was surprised at the dire level of expertise that I was provided with over what I thought would be a relatively easy issue to solve. Instead, the representative couldn't help in any way and promised i'd get a phone call from the team that deal with issues that have been escalated; so far, there has been no communication from Apple. Perhaps I should reclaim my money back for paying out several hundreds pounds for a shoddy non-responsive service.
I'd appreciate it if anybody from this particular support community has any ideas on what I should do to get this solved as I'm not wasting another lot of 30 minutes on the phone with Apple.
Mark.

I just thought I'd add that the Mac Book Air was able to print to the iMac printer at some point in the past and it does have a copy of the printer driver has I acquired it from the Canon website. The fact that the Mac Book Air requests for the driver from my iMac when it attempts to communicate with the printer confuses things further.

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