Bonjour won't print to ethernet windows 7

Bonjour is a very exasperating piece of stuff.  I am trying to get a printer attached to a Mac to print a document from Windows 7. 
Bonjour installs properly, I think.
The Windows machine (connected by ethernet, not wirelessly) sees the printer on the Mac.  The Firewall is turned off.
The print instruction is sent, the print job goes off ...  and probably lands on the Moon.  No print results come out of the printer.
Directions would be most welcome; this should not be rocket science!

A follow up comment, in case somebody has similar complaints.  I have established full printer sharing with my PCs, so my nasty remarks about Bonjour were inappropriate.  There were some steps that I had to follow to get things working:
1) on the iMac, confirm that the printer has the most current drivers.  I had relied on the Mac updates and while the driver printed fine on my Mac, it was a couple of service numbers behind what was available on the Canon site.  So make sure the drivers are current.
2) On the PC, uninstall and re-boot.  Re-install.  Make sure the operation completes fully.  I think my error was in being impatient.
3) Select the printer you want to use from the Bonjour software before calling the print job.  This may seem obvious, but the instructions don't speel this out as comprehensively as they might.  Following this step, then calling the printer, produced nice results.

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