Can't Print to A Printer attached to a PC using XP

Hi,
I am sharing a network with a win xp computer using a wireless network from my mac book pro running os 10.5.1 It works great except for one problem: I am unable to print to the HP Officejet 4315 That is a printer attached to the XP machine with print sharing turned on. It is shared on the netwk and works fine. I can acutally see the printer on the windows network when I add printer through the workgroup/windows/server. When I try to add it on, OS X asks for drivers for the printer. I looked up the print drivers and there wasn't one for this particular printer. I tried generic postcript printer, but even that didn't help. I have also tried to download linux foundation drivers for 0S X printing. The best response I got was that the printer gets the job and then just hangs without printing.
Please help.

You will find numerous answers to this by searching for Windows Printing CUPS - but I'll give you the basics.
The print driver HP provides for that model is limited to USB direct connection. You need a CUPS driver to use the CUPS standard network protocols like IP printing and Windows Printing. All the CUPS third-party drivers I know of are here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
http://www.printfab.net
Your model is supported by hpijs at the first link.

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