canon i860 driver no longer shows in airport express

I've been printing to a canon i860 via airport express without incident for a year now. I only do it when I travel on business, so it’s like twice a quarter. I’m out on a trip now and got everything setup only to find that in printer setup utility it was no longer listed as an available option. No biggie, I'll just re-add it. Bonjour sees it, I select it, but when it prompts me to “print using”, I select Canon but the i860 is not listed in the drop down list. It stops at S800 - Gimp- Print v5.0.0 beta 2. In fact, everything has the gimp print suffix after the printer name, whatever the heck that is. It used to list the I series printers so I could just select the i860, but no more. I select the s800 and it prints greyed out. I select the s400 and it prints black but on a third of the page.

Help!

Posted on Sep 26, 2005 8:32 AM

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Nov 7, 2005 12:41 PM in response to Conejo

I'm posting on this again as I'm still having the problem.

I re-downloaded the appropriate driver from the Canon site and first added the printer via USB and that worked fine. Under “Print Using” it said Canon i860.

Then I connected it to the airport extreme and it sees it but the auto select under ‘print using’ comes up blank and is making me select something, but under Canon, like I typed above a few months ago, I don’t have the option of selecting my printer. I don’t know if it’s possible to manually point it to the driver, but I have no idea where drivers are stored to even try.

Anyone know what’s going on here? It used to work just fine. I used to just select the printer and away we went. Now it’s just not finding the driver.

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