[mycatsnameis]

Here's my set up:

Ti book => 54g card => wireless router => iMac (via E-net) => Canon i560 via USB (USB printer sharing on)

All running X.2.2

When I print directly from the iMac to the i560, the Canon drivers load properly (in the print dialog box I get access to panes for adjusting paper type, colour intensity etc.).

When I print from the Ti book, I don't get any of these custom (? drive-specifc) options even though I've installed the drivers on the Ti book (a number of times actually). I've also tried removing and re-adding the i560 as a USB shared printer which has not helped.

If I connect the Tibook to the i560 directly via USB however, I am able to add the printer as a USB printer and the appropriate option panes show up in the print dialog box.

If I switch back to printing over the network, no special features.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem? I'd really like to be able to access the custom printing features afforded by the Canon drivers when printing over the network.

Canon, of course, declined to offer any helpful advice:

Due to the wide variety of possible network configurations, we are
unable to provide you with network printing support. Canon printers and
MultiPASS' are designed to be connected to a single workstation. Our
apologies are extended to you for any inconvenience.

[Bruck]

I am running into the same problems and here is what i think it is, one way you are using a regular usb printer driver the other way you are using a postscript driver. I have the same problem and i dont think there is a workaround because i think postscript drivers are not written as robust, i may be wrong.

[mycatsnameis]

I was suspecting something along these lines as well. I don't know enough about teh nuts and bolts of network printing though to figure out why one set of drivers would work through a direct (USB) connection but not through a network share.

Are you also using a Canon printer? I suspect that this problem is a general one and not Canon specific.