Lost shared printer in Lion and can't re-install it

I have a Samsung SCX-3200 printer at home that is connected to a Mac Mini. When I come home with my Macbook Air running OS Lion I would print to it over Wi-Fi as a shared printer attached to the Mini.
A few days ago it stopped being able to print that way, so I deleted it from the list of printers and planned to re-install it on the Air. At first it would appear as a possible printer to be added, and would ask if I wanted to download and install the needed software, and I would say yes. But it always produced an error saying the installation failed.
Now the printer is no longer even detected as a possibility to install. What can I do? How is this possible?
If I connect the Air directly to the printer via USB it works fine. But I can't always be disconnecting and re-connecting the printer, I want to be able to use it again via Wi-Fi as a Shared Printer.
Thank you.
Peter

Just guessing a bit here, but do you have the disc that came with the printer? Have you tried putting it in the mac mini, and then searching for the drivers on the disc from your Air over your local network?

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