HP color laserjet printer on a networked windows xp Machine

printer, I have an hp color laser jet connected to a computer on my in house wireless network. How do i tel my imac to use it. I just bought this imac and I am new to apple. I would really appreciate any advice I could get to get the mac to print.
printer: HP color laserjet 1600 (connected to the xp computer)
Computer: Windows running XP up to date
Network: Cisco router wireless network

You will need to turn on Sharing on both computers and specifically printer sharing. I would recommend you contact AppleCare (phone number is in your owners manual) and may be able to help you. Remember they are Apple Techs so there is a good chance they're not trained on MS Windows. I'd recommend Googling something like Printer sharing Windows XP.
For example I found this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457001.aspx
Roger

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