How to share a HP Laserjet between a iMac and a PC Laptop

I have been sharing a HP Laserjet 1200 between my iMac and a Toshiba Satellite laptop for years by using the USB port for the iMac, and using the parallel port for the PC. This has worked great for years. I've just purchased a new laptop, and it no longer has a parallel port. Is there a way for me to still connect the printer to both computers? I also have a Color LaserJet 2600n, does the 'n' means wireless? The 2600n is only connected to the iMac, being I don't use it much. Most of my printing comes off the Laserjet 1200, for both computers and would really like to keep it like that. I've also just purchased Snow Leopard for the iMac, just haven't gotten a chance to install it yet. Upgrading one machine at a time. First I need to print from both machines. Any help would be appreciate it! Thank you.

Hi Barney,
Finally got a chance to download Bonjour for Windows to my laptop late last night, and after a few tries (to get the correct driver for that old HP1200...), it worked! The original driver disc wouldn't work, guess it was just too old. But was able to get one from HP web site. Anyway, thank you so very much. Though I have to make sure the Mac is on when I want to print from the laptop, as the printers are on sharing, they're right next to each other and I tend to work off both at the same time anyway, so it's not a big deal. Sometimes over the weekend, I will play with the wires some more to do what you and Bruce suggested, and make sure the mac and the 2600 is connected via Ethernet, not USB. Right now the 1200 is connected directly to the Netgear, but doesn't seem to work as a server. Oh well. Again, thank you for your suggestions. It was of great help!

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