cannot connect my new printer to my laptop

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by h2o - 5/12/12 2:57 AM

I have problems connecting my printer to my laptop.

The other day I had to buy a new laptop as my old one had died on me.

I have a network with 2 pc's and 1 laptop.
1 pc is used as a server for data and printing. This is a 32 bit Vista machine. I have a Canon iP4200 printer hooked on the pc.
My new 64 bit laptop runs windows7 home primium sp1.

So up untill now connecting my laptop/pc to the printer has allways been a piece of cake. But unfortunately with my new laptop it won't work.

Here's what goes:
1) configuration => printers
2) add a printer => networkprinter
3) it surches my network and yes it finds a printer connected to my pc. it's adress: \\PC_BOVEN_02\Canon iP4200
4) click next and it starts connecting to the above mentioned printer.
5) after a while a screen pops up: No driver has been found! Click OK to manually surch for the driver. So I click OK
6) I enter as a path: C:\Windows\inf (suggested by Canon when I contacted them).
7) I get back on step 6 no drivers.

I asked cannon and they say they do not have a seperate driver.
When I connect the printer through USB it automatically connects. No Sweat.

Cannon doesn't seem to have the answer.

Who does??

(I used to have a 32bit windows 7 laptop and that worked well.)