Print from OS 10.7 to Windows 7-shared Printer

I've searched around for different methods on how to do this but I've had no success..
(Be aware that i'm new to Mac haha)
I've tried by just finding the printer through the Windows tab of the Print & Scan preferences.
It says it's worked but then when I try to print it asks me for a username and password. I enter in the username of one of the Windows admin accounts (none of them passwords) and it still holds the print job. If I enter my Mac username/password, same issue.
So then I tried this..
http://www.aboutfortunate.com/Technology-Blog.aspx?entid=25
It says it works fine, doesn't prompt for a username/pw when I print, says it's processed the job, but nothing prints on the otherside.
I've seen this CUPs mentioned on the communities here, but wasn't sure on how to get it going exactly. I just opened up the download file on the CUPs front page, opened up the install_sh file and then http://localhost:631/admin page. From there it's asking me for a username/password - nothing i've already tried works.
So i'm lost - thought it would be much simpler than this. Would appreciate anybody who can help!

Same here:
HP Deskjet F2280 usb-attached to a Win7 64bit system: printer is SHARED and works correctly from the attached pc and from other networked windows systems.
FRom a networked iMac osx 10.6.8 the print doesn't work: it correctly send the print job, the printer makes
its usual pre-print various noises but after that it stay with the flashing light and nothing happens: in win7
the printer windows say that it's printing.
As suggested i tried also to enable LPD printing on win7 and consequently selected the lpd://pcIP/printername
on imac side but no luck.
My feeling is that there is something wrong on HP drivers for mac but i don't know if there is an alternative...
Many thanks in advance for any help.

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