Sharing printing across MacBook Pro 17" OS 10.6.8 to 10.7.3

I've been jiggling the printing from Mac OS 10.6.8 on the Early 2006 Mac Book Pro to the printer sharing Early 2008 Mac OS 10.7.3 since its new clean install. It is a lot faster now since I've got 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, and a clean install built up from the original restore discs.
Still not printing from Early 2006. I ran across CUPS and downloaded it from http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24397/cups. Early 2008 Mac has CUPS 1.5.1 and the download in 1.5.2 to Early 2006. The down-page comment said 1.5.1 has been pulled.
Ah, I see a new source is on http://www.cups.org/software.php?VERSION=1.5.2&FILE=cups/1.5.2/cups-1.5.2-source .tar.bz2
It seems the same.
When I downloaded CUPS on Early 2006, it didn't complain about its install, but the Printer test page still shows CUPS 1.4.7 on-screen. So I don't think it installed. Maybe its install is designed to abort on older OSs. Since it is Linux, there is no warning. ;-(
I would think that Mac OS would provide a cmd "Printer Online" analogous to how Mail treats eMail accounts. Nope—all I can find are "Pause" and "Resume." Not that close to Offline and Online. During my jiggling, on Early 2006, I've seen the Printer System Preferences state icon to go red, yellow, and green, but TestPrint never completes.
Printing is fine from Early 2008 computer.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi a,
It looks like you have a 15" mid 2010. You can try the SMC reset. If that doesn't work, see the free repair program for similar issues:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088

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