Need help hooking up an old laser printer to my wireless router

I have an old HP Laserjet4 Plus that has been a workhorse. I've had it for years and it still works great. Previously I was using it as my network printer, plugged into a WRTP54G Linksys Vonage router. That setup worked fine, but over time the router began to drop my connection over and over. I decided to buy a new router and leave the old one to only use as a Vonage device.
I bought a WRT54GL and got it going yesterday (with the help of Linksys tech support). It is now my front router and the old Vonage router is plugged into it just so my telephone service can work. Now my telephone works and my wireless connection works, but I am unable to make my network printer work.
I know that my laptop has the proper driver as the printer was working fine through the old router. What do I need to do to get my printer working again?
Also, I am not very technically savvy so please spell out any steps I need to take for a novice. Thanks so much for your consideration.

yuppers you can.
but first write down that your rounter is now 192.168.15.1 not 192.168.1.1
after you made the last change did you have to restart your pc?
you will need to print out a status page like you did on the other. what is the current ip address it has? is it in the 192.168.15.xx range? if it is then what is it?  as long as its .3 or higher but not .100 - 49 then skip the next step.  keep in mind we want the printer to be static ip.
ok anyways, on your new printer you will need to set it to a static ip of 192.168.15.3 with a gateway of 192.168.15.1 and sub as 255.255.255.0 just like your other printer except the ip address off by one.
and in your pc right click on the printer > properties > ports > and either add 192.168.15.3 or modify the existing ip <<<really all we are doing is matching the ips so if printer is 192.168.15.35 make it that.  make sure the printer is selected to 192.168.15.3 press save.
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