My printer doesn't appear on the network

Hi,
I have installed my HP designJet 500+ printer on to my iMac g5, which opperates OS 10.3.9 and I have no problems printing directly. However, I am trying to print to the same printer using my intel based iMac opperating OS 10.6.8 but I can't seem to 'see' the printer on the network.
I have made sure that the share printers button is checked on both computers and I have no problem establishing a netwok between the two computers (via ethernet).
Although the designjet is market as both shared and default printer on the G5, it doesn't actually appear in the shared printers list on the computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks RRFS, I had already tried this, although I have had some progress since my previous post. I can manually add the printer as an ip printer, however, unless I select a generic print driver, then I cannot print (the job just dissapers from the queue list).
The problem with using the generic driver is that I can only get a very limited usage, for example the only page size I can print to is A4 and as the designjet is a large format printer, it means that it is effectivly unusuable!
I'm wondering whether the problem may be because the dirver versions and different on the two computer. I have tried to install the newer driver on the old computer and vice versa, but no joy! Do you think there is such a ting as a patch to patch between the computers....or am I just waaaay off?
Thanks for your response

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