Reengineering / building a LBP 1120 driver to make it work on Snow Leopard?

Hi Everyone,
Until recently I had been using my Canon LBP 1120 on Tiger 10.4.11 thanks to the driver which can be found on the japanese website of canon (http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/lasershot/captusbmacx.html ).
Since I switched to Snow Leopard, I am no longer able to find a working driver to be run on my new OS X for my LBP 1120. And I guess I am not the only one.
My question is simple :
Would you think it is possible to reengineer / build a driver either from :
- one of the following Mac OS X drivers designed for various LBP printers on the Canon site (http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/lasershot/drv-macx.html)
or
- from a CAPT Printer Driver for Linux Ver 2.00 (http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/lasershot/linux/captlinux.html)
For your information, here is the link to LBP drivers for any kind of operating system (http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/lasershot/)
Thanks a lot in advance
Stan

thanks for your encouraging words direwolf8, I'm sure it's possible and I'm gonna do it !
After some research it appears that Macintosh supports CUPS, so I'm going to look into that direction : http://www.cups.org/
When there's a will, there is a way.
Stan

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