Can't install a printer

I am having trouble installing a printer to my mac. When I go into the "Settings" for "Fax&Printers" page, the normal pull down menu that lets you choose from USB/Bonjour/IP is not showing up. In fact all of the regular printer options aren't even enabled. When I try to find nearby printers it doesn't pull up the printer I am trying to select.
I am running Parallels on this machine as well, and figured it was an issue with that. But when I closed Parallels and tried it again, I kept running into the same problem. I've restarted/installed updates and I'm stuck. Suggestions?

If you want to hook it up via wireless, it needs to support the wireless standard used by Apple, or be setup for printer sharing either in the wireless access point's own settings, or hooked up to another computer that has printer sharing turned on.    It would help to know the model of the printer, and not just the make, to be able to give you a concise answer on which of these methods is most likely to be fruitful.  And you are running Mac OS X 10.6 something on your machine, correct?

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