I can't print from my Windows computers to a shared printer on my iMac

The windows boxes can see the printer. When print jobs are submitted from Windows computers nothing gets printed. However the print queue on the iMac states that the job completed successfully.
The configuration is -
20 in iMac
OS 10.4.8
Windows computers are running XP SP2
Printer - HP Officejet 4315 All-in-One
20 in iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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