New 24" iMac, with free printer.. sharing question

Hello, I just recently purchased a brand-new iMac 24" (the newest one), and also decided to get the free Canon PIXMA MP160 Photo All-in-One Printer as well.
I also have a Macbook Pro, and was wondering how I can setup the printer on the iMac to work with my laptop. I loving being able to connect to a shared printer, and print... but what about scanning? Is there a simple way I can scan documents, and have them sent to my laptop instead of the iMac it is connected too..
My concern is that someone may be using the iMac when I need to scan, so having it all shared is preferred, so anyone connected to the shared device, can print, scan without having to manually move files from the iMac to the laptop or whatever computer they are on.
What are my options?
Hopefully I posted in the right forum, and someone knows a good working solution.
Thanks!!

Anyone out there?

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Couldn't find anywhere appropriate to post this.....
Two years ago I purchased a new iMac direct from Apple (Ireland) which came with a free HP Photosmart C4680 printer/copier/scanner. At the time I already had a printer so the HP has stayed in its box until now. I opened up the box recently to find that the power cable was missing. Phoned Apple to be told that this was not a mistake and that all those printers were shipped without power cables and it was up to the customer to source one themselves, which they say is the reason they were able to give them away free!!! According to Apple it's a very common cable which should be easy to find. It is in fact an unusual 32V cable that can only be sourced from China at a fee of nearly 80 euro.
I was so taken aback by this that I didn't really argue my case when they said that they weren't willing to do anything about it.
Has anyone ever heard of this strange practice of it being up to the customer to find a power cable for a product as common as a printer?
Does the two year gap mean that Apple are under no obligation to help even though the shipped product was missing a vital component?
I really don't want to have to throw a brand new printer in the bin.
Thanks.

It sounds like the Apple rep was describing is a USB printer-to-computer cable, which many printer manufacturers stopped including years ago. A power supply/cord is somewhat fundamental to the printers operation. Two years later is a bit of a stretch to expect Apple to honor what sounds like a packaging defect by HP. Have you contacted HP about a replacement power supply?

IF I BUY THE NEW 24" IMAC WITH A 3GB AIRPORT DO I NEED TO GET AN AIRPORT EXPRESS?

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You say 'a 3GB Airport' - do you mean a Time Capsule? - that is a router providing wifi.

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Hi there, I just wanted to let you know what has happened with my printer since.
I called hp, and they said that because the printer didn't have some sort of extended care plan, that they would charge me $45 or I could call Apple. They said specifically that it was Apple's problem (yeah right).
Talked to the most friendly techies ever, and they spent hours on the phone with me trying a bunch of different ideas. Apparently, from what we can figure out, hp simply stopped updating the drivers. When I did try to download the 1022 driver from the website again, it downloads, says its installing, but never actually functions and just disappears. So after everything, even trying the original install cd, we determined that we just can't get it to work.
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Before those concerns are completely alleviated, go over to the iMac hardware forum and do a search for firewire issues. Like actual physical problems with the jacks on the 20" iMac and having drives just completely "disappear".
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not a great big deal IMO.
iMac DOES lack expandibility, but it doesn't lack horses. actually i would say (and have said) that impiro would do better with an older tower to allow for expandability because he doesn't need that many horses to do what he needs to do. and i certainly feel that it is unnecessary to spend money on a computer that would be better spent on other things relating to the move to computer based music mixing.
never-the-less, the kind of live musician-audio-based music impiro is going to be making is childs play for modern computers. he will be able to run loads of tracks and plug-ins before a new imac will even break a sweat. even with an interface and a FW drive on 1 bus running at 400. he just won't be able to run loads and loads.
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