Problems printing from illustrator to Canon printer

I have problems with printing from Illustrator CS4 to a Canon printer i-Sensys MF8050 (printing
from Illustrator to a Epson stylus Photo R2400 is no problem).
Printing from Photoshop to the Canon printer is also no problem. I
refreshed the preferences (did not help).
Operating System: Mac OS X (v10.6)
Printer driver version: 3.3
Usb connection
Canon believes it must be a problem with the illustrator program; it sends the wrong signs to
the printer.
After sending print to printer the printer reports that the A4 tray is empty, but is is still full.
What is going wrong, who can help me out?

Thanx Mike,
Reinstalled the printer softwear but it didn't resolve the problem.
But your suggestion to print illustrator pdf file in Acrobat is good solution for the moment.
I think something is wrong with Illustrator, because starting up the printing module is also taking a long time.
Did download the latest up date from illustrator to day, but that also didn't resolve the problem.
And you are right.... 3.3 is the fax driver

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