Can't set up Vista Network Printer

My HP printer is currently on a Vista Network. My three Windows based computers all print off of it. I want to add to my new iMac. I have enabled all sharing boxes in the "sharing program" I have tried to add with the "appletalk" dropdown and the "windows" dropdown. When I click on "more Printers" the word "workgroup" (the name of my vista network) shows. I click on that and "bruce-pc" (the name of the network the printer is on) appears but not the printer. It appears the iMac is seeing my network but not the printer. Can anyone help? Thanks

I found I could never connect to a Vista shared printer using SMB. But I did get it working using LPR/LPD. Here's some steps;
1. Navigate to the Windows Vista Control Panel
2. Go to the "Programs and Features" pane
3. Click on "Turn Windows Features on or off"
4. Expand Print Services and enable LPD print service
5. Still in Control Panel, open Printers and right click the printer to share. Select Sharing.
6. Enable the Sharing button and enter a share name without spaces
7. On the Mac OS X system, open Printer Setup Utility (located in Applications/Utilities)
8. Click Add and while holding down the "Option" key, click "More Printers"
9. From the top menu select "Advanced"
10. From the "Device" field select "LPD/LPR Host or Printer"
11. In the "Device URI:" field, lpd://(name of your Windows Vista computer)/(share name of your printer), e.g. lpd://VistaHome/CanonBJ
12. Browse to the Brand and Model of printer. For a number of printers you will have to use the Gutenprint driver, as a number of vendor drivers do not support cross-platform network printing.
13. Click the "Add" button

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