Why are my printers suddenly auto-pausing?

Hello all - weirdest thing has just started happening. I have two Canon large-format printers (iPF8100/iPF8300) I use, along with several smaller photo and office printers. I haven't printed to the two big ones in about a week or so, but needed to load some new paper for a job yesterday. Printers are both operating fine and the paper loaded great, but now when I try to print to either of them, the print queue pauses as soon as the job hits it. If I try to unpause the queue, it attempts to send the data and then re-pauses. This problem is not happening to any of the other printers (two of which are also IP printers, and one of which is attached via USB).
I googled the problem and deleted all my printers, reset the printing system, re-added all the printers - to no effect, the two big ones still pause and the smaller ones don't. I re-installed the iPF drivers (same versions which up until a week ago were working just fine), and I still get the exact same effect.
All the IP printers are on static IPs and I can access the printer webpages from a browser, so I know they're on the network and responding. They're all sitting on the same segment as the Mac, and all are set up through IP Print (i.e., no Bonjour). The Canon utilities can see the printers and control them just fine. I don't see any errors in the Console CUPS error log (the closest thing I see is a 'Stopping unresponsive job.' but it doesn't appear to correlate with when I send a file to the two big printers).
I'm puzzled as to where to look next - any pointers would be very much appreciated, as it's hard to hand a customer a paused print job and expect them to be satisfied!

Thanks for helping me through this diagnostic - as I work my way into it I'm honestly more and more puzzled.
Tried JetDirect. It added the printer fine, but then the printer selection dialog box froze for about 60 seconds whenever I selected the printer in a print dialog box and options the driver should have (i.e., the list of paper types) were blank after the 60 seconds had expired. I took a stab and turned off my machine firewall and turned on Raw Bidirectional on the printer to no effect. When I tried to actually print (despite the pause in the printer selection), I get this error:
"The printer is not registered correctly. We recommend using imagePROGRAF PrinterSetup in the Dock to re-register the printer."
I then nuked the printer out of the list and added it as LPD. Added fine, driver can see the printer and the papers, no pause on printer selection in the dialog box. When I go to print (a simple line of text from TextEdit), I get the following error in the Queue that's also replicated in the CUPS error log:
"E [23/Feb/2013:10:27:25 -0800] [Job 17] libgaro_color error : 18000"
The printer never comes online nor prints anything.
So, two different results than the pausing with protocol changes, but I'm not sure how to interpret these.
I ran the PrintInf and have a sheet chock full of data, including a bunch of error and warning codes I'm entirely unqualified to decode. Let me know what's of interest to you out of the bunch.
Appreciate the help!

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