Wireless printing stopped - Canon MX310

I see many people are having this issue. After searching the forums I haven't seen the solution.
We used to be able to print wirelessly with this same printer & network. One day it just stopped working and nothing I've been able to find has fixed the issue.
10.5.6 - Host machine - USB wired to MX310
10.5.8 - Macbook Pro wireless
We've installed the latest drivers on both machines (is it only really needed on the host machine???)
Host Machine:
Sharing - Printer Sharing ON - MX310 Printer is checked to SHARE
Print & FAX Prefs - MX310 Printer is checked to SHARE
Wireless Machine:
Added the MX310 printer again - took it a while to do it's scan and "getting info", but it shows up with the correct name & Host machine.
When we try to print on the wireless machine it just says "printing", but nothing else happens.
It also fails in the exact same way when the Macbook Pro is connected via ethernet cable, so it's not just the wireless aspect.
I do see that it's trying to connect on port 601. I'll see if there's a way to open that port up & if it changes anything.
Any ideas?
Message was edited by: DaveF

Hello DaveF,
First thing I would do is ensure you can print to the MX310 via USB with the MacBook Pro. This will help to determine if the driver software is installed correctly on the MBP. If that works fine then you can concentrate on the network connection.
Printer sharing uses port 631, which is used by Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). You could monitor this port on the machine hosting the share to see if the MBP actually connects to it. If you open Terminal and type 'netstat -a', this will show all currently active ports and connections. If the MBP does connect, then you will see its IP address and the port number in the list.
If you don't see the MBP in the list, check the built-in firewall settings are not enabled (located in System Prefs > Security > Firewall). Also try enabling File Sharing and check that you can connect to the Public folder.
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