Won't print from InDesign/Acrobat CS3

I have the strangest situation with an install of CS3 Standard edition on a 10.4.9 iMac C2D and printing from InDesign and Acrobat.
I installed this last week on 3 iMac's. One older G5 iSigh iMac, and 2 C2D iMac's. Everything went fine, untill on one of the two Core 2 Duo machines I wanted to print. (Every machine has their own Canon IP 4200 attached to it). The printjob is handed of to the system, and after that the progress bar in Printmonitor just keeps on scrolling. Nothing happens.
Printing from PhotoshopCS3/IllustratorCS3 and even Bridge is not a problem, and printing from Indesign CS2 is also not a problem.
What I have done: reset PRAM, reset PMU, repair permissions, deinstall and reinstall printer, reset printersystem and reinstall, clean fontcaches, tested fonts, made simple documents with just a colored rectange, printing using the Adobe PDF printer and printing from Acrobat, nothing works. Connected and installed a completely different printer (HP Deskjet 7200) and that doesn't work either. The only thing that DOES work is printing to a shared printer on another Mac.
Before I go for an Archive and Install, anybody else have any bright ideas? Thanx for thinking with me...
iMac C2Duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi,
Download and run HP Print and Scan Dr utility from link below to troubleshoot the issue.
www.hp.com/go/tools
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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