Repeatedly required to reinstall printer driver

I have installed canon MP 450 in my ibook G4 and have successfully printed material using bluetooth. However, I often have to reinstall the driver. Does anyone know why this would happen repeatedly?

Yes, I can connect by USB. This is a confusing problem since it is intermittent, and I can even be right next to the printer.

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HT1349 My macbook pro will not print to wireless printer-it just printed fine the other day. Even reloaded the printer driver, etc, message is "there is a communication error" -in the printer queue it says it is printing then error message pops up

Macbook Pro unable to print to wireless printer-other PC prints fine and mac just printed a couple days ago just fine. Tried reboot of router-no change, tried reinstall printer driver, etc, no change. what do I do now?

As you can see here, that particular Canon printer is not supported by AirPrint:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4356
More importantly, these directions should help in trying to set up your printer.
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Printer (Driver) issue only after reinstalling 10.6.8

For some reason since I reinstalled my mac os (I transferred everything from time machine and did the updates, including a printer driver update) after my printer has been idle, it can't be found by my computer. In theory there's nothing wrong with my wireless router, as everything possible with that has been tried and failed to resolve the issue. When I go into the console logs, I get these errors, always together, every ten seconds or so:
9/12/11 5:27:05 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[92]          (com.hp.devicemonitor[2063]) posix_spawn("/Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HP Device Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HP Device Monitor", ...): No such file or directory
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9/12/11 5:27:05 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[92]          (com.hp.devicemonitor) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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Another thing I found was this in my console: 9/12/11 10:58:50 AM          mDNSResponder[18]          Client application bug: DNSServiceResolve(HP\032LaserJet\032CP1525nw\032(843086)._ipp._tcp.local.) active for over two minutes. This places considerable burden on the network.
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And one other thing - if I search this very same error on google, the only thing that will come up is someone having trouble with a brand new MBP with the screen flickering and the graphics device switching. For whatever reason when the person got rid of HP from their user logs or something the flicker issue went away but they started seeing this very same series of errors. My screen is fine except for the fact that sometimes when it comes out of sleep the screen will go black. I've had that problem for a long time, it doesn't happen very often (thank God), and while this has been going on (before the reinstall), I had NO trouble with my printer. Nothing seems to make sense.

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Right-click Point and Print Restrictions, and then click Properties.
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Trible post. Please use:
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