Thanks sanjampet. Since you didn't answer for some time, I emailed Canon. Their advice to delete printers in System Preferences/Print and Fax was same as yours. I understand you at first to mean I should somehow delete the print queue function, but I now understand you just mean to delete any active jobs from the queue.
I don't know what you mean by an uninstall button. Canon recommended moving to Trash all printers & scanner drivers, including those I have for another printer/scanner Canon MX860 which I sometimes use, & installing all new drivers & software from Canon site. According to Canon, the printer driver is in various folders located in Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter folder, & to trash that entire folder. That folder includes the IJ Printer Utility.app's I mentioned.
They say scanner driver is in Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources. Files therein are titled MP990 series.ds, which they told me to trash, & MP990 series Network.ds. Finder does define these as Applications. The Canon IJScanner1.app that was installed as part of Apple's 7/19/12 update is in Image Capture/Devices, as is an older IJScanner2.app, so maybe that is involved in driving scanner as well. The Printers/Canon/IJScanner folder has an app titled IJ Network Scanner Selector2.app. I don't know what that does.
Canon also advised me to trash BJExtDDI.cfm from Library/CFM Support, & MPNavigatorEX3.0.4 from Applications/Canon Utilities as current version is 3.0.5.
It may be several weeks before i perform these procedures, as I don't want to risk disabling my printer until major medical issues that just came up are resolved.