Printer on network shared between PC and Mac

Thanks to this forum I managed to establish an Airport Extreme network with:
Airport Extreme Base station,
Netgear router with 4 ethernet hub,
iBook G4 (connecting through Airport)
iMac G5 (connecting through ethernet! because the signal is too low in my study)
HP laptop (connecting wirelessly)
HP Laserjet 2100TN connected via the Netgear router/ethernet hub.
(this printer has no USB-connection, but ethernet or parallel and possibly infrared but I've never used that).
I can print from my iMac G5 this way, but not from my iBook.
When i plug the printer via ethernet into the Airport Extreme Base station, the iBook can print, but the iMac G5 no longer!
In both set-ups, the HP does not find the printer.
What can I do to print from all three computers?

Hi, if you haven't fixed it yet, try this: go into printers on the hp, select add new printer, and select TCP/IP port for the new printer. If it doesn't show that as an option, click on add new port, then add TCP/IP, and you will have to know the IP address for the printer (look in the router's settings for it), put it in as the address for the printer and click o.k.. This should allow your hp to see and print to the printer with no problems. Sometimes if you try to print from a win pc thru the airport usb print server port, you have to change the "bi-directional" checkbox in the setup settings on the pc printer (specific) or it will print, and then when you go to print another job, it thinks the printer is busy. I don't know why this happens, but if you uncheck your bi-directional setting, it will always print fine from the win pc thru the airport, if it is connected to the usb printer port on the airport base station. If you are printing to it thru ethernet it is not a problem. Don't change the setting at all if you are printing to an IP address thru ethernet. Good Luck

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