Dell Printer Accessible on Bonjour and Airport Network?

Want Mac and PC on home network to be able to access Dell printer over wireless network.
Installed Bonjour for Windows. It "sees" an HP printer attached to Airport Extreme so I know it is working.
I have connected Dell printer (which works fine connected directly to PC) via USB to my Airport Express.
However, the Dell printer doesn't appear in Bonjour for Windows printer setup utility.
Anybody know if Dell printers are inherently incompatible wiht this setup? Should all PC USB printers be compatible?
Thanks.

David,
Great instructions....thanks for sharing. I just bought a new Windows 7 computer and it was driving me nuts installing the printers on the Airport Extreme. It was a lot easier installing them on the Vista machine.

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