USB Printer won't show on client machines anymore

This has happened three times now and the only way I've been able to resolve it is to delete the printer set up on the server and then create a new one.
I have a Canon iP4200 connected to a Power Mac running Server 10.4.8 and the printer is connected via USB.
I set up the print service and check LPR and Show name in Bonjour. Those are the only two settings I use.
After doing this from anew my other Macs will see the printer in the Printer Browser via Bonjour and the printer will add to each computer and each computer can successfully print to it.
Then after a few months you'll print and nothing ever happens. The local machines will just have "printing" going forever, nothing ever shows up on the server.
On the server I can still print to the printer. I can stop the Print service and restart it with no effect. Rebooting the server also has no effect. The only thing that works is to delete the printer on the server and re-set it up.

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Login into iCloud for the first time - appears to be ok
Run Contacts - appears to be ok
Wait the addresses to sync from iCloud - appears to be ok
Quit
Run Contacts - still appears to be ok
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Run Mail (which takes a long time)
Contacts sudden looses all address and effectively both Mail and Contacts freeeze. It is at this point I start seeing the above errors
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