Can't print to a 6540 HP printer shared by a Vista Home Premium PC

Hello, I have been trying to print from my MacBook to a printer shared by a Vista Home Premium PC but I just can't seem to make it right. I have been searching on the support discussion hoping to solve the problem but still, no luck. In the discussions that I read I followed some instructions but still no solution.
Firat I tried to add the printer using the windows printing option, I can see the computer the printer is shared on the network, but no printer, so I kept looking in the discussions and found that I should try someting else.
Then I read another, it said that I should try LPD printing, so I enabled it on the windows vista PC. I checked that both subnet masks and workgroups where the same, and they were. Then I tried to add it on my MacBook, but now the driver was not available on my Mac so I checked another discussion. The next discussion said that I should download some ghostscrip from http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/ and to repair permissions and I did, then my hopes went really up, but still no luck
Can anyone really help me to solve this problem, I know there should be answer for this.

Sorry, I can't really tell what solved to issue finally but I can tell you what I did step by step:
First I enabled LDP in the Vista computer
Check the Vista computer ip using the ipconfig comman in cmd
Check the Vista computer Workgroup and check it on my mac, they were the same.
Download the ghostscript files and installed them so that the correct driver could be selected.
Go to the add printers and pressing the alt option key click on more printers.
I chose the LDP thing
On name I wrote the printer name, very simple one
on the URL field I wrote the vista ip/printer name
I chose the exact same driver for the prnter.
Went to the vista computer again and opened the 515 port for TCP and UDP (I didn't know the difference so I did both)
Went to the router settings and opened the same port for TCP and UDP again.
Then everything worked fine!

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