Trouble printing from 10.6 to shared canon on 10.5 iMac

Hi,
I have 2 Canon printers attached to a G4 iMac running 10.5. A PIXMA Pro9000 MKII and a PIXMA ip4700. Both printers are shared and we print to them using 2 MBP's. Everything went very smooth when all the machines were on the same OS. But since we upgraded the MBPs to 10.6, neither printer will print more than 1 copy and the ip4700 constantly prints to the wrong tray.
I've tried reinstalling the drivers from Canon on all 3 machines, I've tried un-sharing and re-sharing the printers, I don't know what else to try. I know 10.6 provides updated drivers - is there a way to add these drivers to a 10.5 machine?
Any hints are appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike

Spencer Pants wrote:
For more information, I looked at the print job and clicked more info on it, noticed at the bottom it says
Job Message: /usr/libexec/cups/backend/dnssd failed.
The backend is DNS Service Discovery - aka Bonjour. The failure could be a result of the service itself or other factors. You could try running the 10.6.5 Combo updater on your MBPro - especially if you just ran Software Update to get it to 10.6.5 from 10.6.x. This can help with getting the service re-installed/repaired. You could also run a repair disk permissions via Disk Utility. This can also be helpful after a system update.
I've also noticed that the url for this printer is very different on the two machines. On mine, when i check the printer options, it says
URL: dnssd://hp%20LaserJet%204200%20%40%20Kath's%20Computer.ipp.tcp.local.
This shows that you are connecting to the Mac share via Bonjour.
whereas if I look on her MBP (which still prints fine and is running 10.5.8) it says
URL: pap://*/hp%20LaserJet%204200/LaserWriter
This shows that she is connecting to the share via AppleTalk, which has been discontinued as a service in OS X 10.6 and using an Apple LaserWriter driver. Sp you don't have this as an option.
I also suggest you look at printing directly to the HPLJ rather than connecting via the share. The printer should have its own IP address, unless the Pro is also connecting via AppleTalk. If it did have an IP address then you would be able to add the printer using IP > HP Jetdirect-Socket.

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