Printing to a photo printer connected to Windows?

Hi everyone,
Just got a new digital camera for Christmas and here's the problem. We have a Kodak digital camera and the Kodak EasyShare printer dock 6000 to go with it. It's connected to a Windows XP computer. My new camera is a Casio Exilim S500, so obviously, it doesn't go on the Kodak dock... but on the Windows computer you can print anything to the dock directly from the computer, but when I try to print to it from my Mac it won't go through. I've played around with some settings.. tried to tell it that it's printing on 4x6 paper and what not. (I'm using iPhoto by the way). It comes up in the printer que, but then never prints. It also says the file is like 30-something MBs when really its 1.5MBs. Can anyone tell me a correct way to make this work?? I print from my Mac to an HP Photosmart 1115 printer (connected to that same Windows computer) all the time- no problems.
Any of that make sence?
lol, thanks everyone.

Short and simple: get a different printer. Unfortunately, Dell does not make a driver compatible with OS X for ANY of their printers. AFAIK, there are no generic drivers as well that would be able to do this for a Dell printer either. Sorry for the luck here, but a possible solution would be to copy the files you want printed from the mac to the windoze computer then print it from there. You could even use [MS Remote Desktop for Mac|http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_RDC&fid=803F9438-8 DF3-490F-92C6-0E0F92787DB8#viewer] for a GUI interface between the two.

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