Snow leopard server printing

I've got a Mac mini running Snow Leopard Server (10.6.8) and the printer sharing has never worked. I have a Canon i860 printer hooked up to the Mac mini via USB. I have created an LPR print queue for that printer in the Server Admin app and everything seems fine -- it says that the printer service is running, it has a name, and it is showing up in the list of Bonjour printers from the other machines on the network.
However, after adding this printer, no machines will print to that print queue over the network. The Mac mini will print to that printer over the direct USB connection, but other computers will not. Thus far:
- the print queue shows up in the Bonjour list
- you can add that printer to any computer on the network
- you can (attempt) to print to it
- but then all you get is an error message: "Network host 'Beefeater.local.' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."
It is as though the print jobs are not sent because no jobs show up in the queue in the Server Admin app on the server.
Any ideas?

Found this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/13132912#13132912
...and renamed my print queue from "i860 on Beefeater" to "i860_beefeater"
Now instead of getting the "will retry" message cited above, the problem is that it displays a message that says "Copying print data..." and then shows a message that says "Printer paused." Clicking "Resume" in the toolbar does nothing; no jobs show in the Snow Leopard Server print queue; and there is no indication that the printer itself is having any trouble.
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