Snow leopard and print problems

I installed Snow Leopard in my MacBook and bought the new Imac desktop with Snow Leopard...now I cannot print wirelessly from either these or my old G4 (Leopard)....followed all directions and spent much time with apple support...downloaded Canon drivers and software again to be sure I had the latest and still no success. Canon then tells me the equipment does not work wirelessly even though it did on Leopard....(it is a Canon Pixma MX850)
Any suggestions would be welcome

I didn't see that 10.6.1 did anything for printing. BUT I did see new drivers from HP, Canon and Brother.
In your case, I should point out that the MX850 does not use Bonjour. There is no way for the Mac to see this printer on the network without first installing Canon SW. Kind of a chicken and egg problem for the auto driver download. So you will need to manually download the latest Canon SW:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL899
If you installed SW from Canon's web site / CDs, you first might want to trash /Library/Printers/Canon and reset the printing system (Hold Option and click the "-" in print and Fax Prefs).

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