Print from a PC to a printer on a iMac

I want to know if I can print to my printer, which is plugged into my sisters iMac, from my PC. With my ibook it found the printer and was fine but the PC just doesn't see it.
Does anyone know how to do the impossible of getting an PC to talk to an Apple and see and use its printer?
My desktop using a belkin wireless, with a d-link router.
My sisters iMac is connected by airport.
The printer is an Epson R265.
G3 ibook Clamshell 466mhz Graphite Mac OS X (10.4.8) ibook needs to retire - Macbook wanted

Does anyone know how to do the impossible of getting an PC to talk to an Apple and see and use its printer?
Yes. Check out these two iFelix links:
- http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3014.html
- http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3012.html

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