Net Volumes Mount But Shared Printer Not Seen

Hi,
I have a USB printer on my MacBook which is shared. I also have, on the same network, a Man Mini (G4) which can mount volumes on my MacBook but it simply does not recognise that there are any printers available.
Is there anything I'm doing wrong or something I should be checking? if nothing worked, I'd be looking at the network, but since volumes are mounting, I'm stuck as to what it could be.
Both machines are on the same subnet with AppleTalk enabled with Automatic configuration.
Thanks in advance if anybody can shed light on this for me.

First - appletalk isn't used for any OS X to OS X sharing (neither file nor printer sharing).
Do you have printer sharing on, on the computer with the printer?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh987.html

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