Help needed to communicate with networked printer

Question

I have a iMac G5 with Airport card. I am trying to communicate with an HP7660 printer attached to a WinXP machine with a USB cable. I can communicate bidirectionally fine with shared files between the Mac and the PC. I have turned on the file sharing on the printer itself. In the Mac, in System Preferences/Print & Fax, I set up the printer in the Printer Browser window with the following:
Protocol: Line Printer Daemon - LPD
Address: I used the IP address of the PC
Queue: left blank
Name: hp7660 (same as I gave it on the PC)
Location: I used the IP address of the PC
Print Using: Generic Postscript Printer (this was the default since this model was not shown in the printer list.
In the Print & Fax, under Sharing, it shows the hp7660 checked.
In Printer Setup, "Printer model" shows Generic Postscript Printer.
In Printer Setup, "Name & Location" shows correct for both. The Queue is shown as hp7660 and the driver version is 10.4 (the Mac version).
Now, when I open a Word file and click on "File/Print", the "Printer" is hp7660. When I click Print, I get an error message that says
"Network host "IP address" is busy, down or unreachable; will retry in 30 seconds..."
This same thing happens regardless of the Protocol option that I choose: Line Printer Daemon, Internet Printing Protocol, or HP Jet Direct.
During this time, I get no error message on the PC and there is no other work going on at the PC. As I said, I can easily communicate between both machines, except for the printing.
If all of the configuration settings are correct, does anyone have any ideas that I might have overlooked?
Thanks
Herschel

Answer 1

Henry,
Thanks for being so patient with my problem.
When I follow the efelix directions for setting up the PC, it says that when you press the "Add" button on the Mac, a drop down menu will appear so that one can choose "Window Printing". This is not what happens for me. When I push the "Add" button, a "Printer Browser" window opens.
This Printer Browser window (in the first box) gives me only 3 options: the LPD, IPP and Socket options. After manually entering the Address (IP address of PC), Name (same as shown on the PC), and Location (IP address of PC), the default in "Print Using" shows up as "Generic Postscript Printer". I then click on the "Print Using" using option to choose the HP Photosmart 7660 printer from the list rather than the Generic Postscript Printer.
Now, when I click on "Add", the "Windows Printing/Workgroup" comes up in a Printer Browser window. It has only one item under the "Name" column which is my name and under the "Comment" column it had the Mac ID listed. I then choose "Network Neighborhood" as suggested in the efelix website. What appears now is a single choice called "WORKGROUP" under both the "Name" and "Comment" columns. I should have had 2 choices (as efelix shows), one being "WORKGROUP" and the other being a workgroup that contains my remote PC.
This procedure, according the efelix procedure broke down at the very beginning when he suggests clicking on Add immediatly after setting up the PC. I did not get the drop down window he shows in order to choose "Windows Printing". Rather, this choice did not appear until I went through the configuration procedure of manually choosing the "HP Photosmart 760 Foomatic/hpijs" from the printer list. I don't know whether this may be due to a difference in Panther or Tiger (which I have), but the way I did it does not allow me to make the connection.
So, in summary, it requires that I take a different path to get to the same conditions that efelix shows. Obviously, it is not getting the results needed. I sometimes wonder whether deleting the "hpijs" and 'ghostscript" and just using the HP upgrade might work? What do you think? Or is there some other way to get the "Add" window to give me the drop down window?
I know this may be confusing, but I am trying to give you the step by step procedure that is happening.
Thanks
Herschel