HP Printer compatibility with leopard

I have a HP Deskjet 3845 (3840 series) and I cannot print from it wirelessly (mac printing to a printer hooked up w windows xp). I checked HP and got the drivers and installed them-successfully, but they don't show up in "PRINT".
I then installed all extra drives from leopard install disk 1 and successful install, but it still didn't respond in PRINT under drivers.
Any help is appreciated.

Hi Bri95, did you download the new drivers from software update? One thing that happened to me was the new driver update from apple messed up my driver. run the uninstaller then restart then download the latest driver (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=219&lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&dlc=e n&product=372330) and install. restart then it should be fine.
But seeing that HP's driver is from 11/07, maybe check software update and see if you downloaded the file already, the newer one from Apple. Sorry if this is confusing.

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