Printing from wireless PC to mac

PLease help me.....
MY company recently sent me a pc laptop to do my work. I have it setup wirelessly through the router. The printer is hooked up via USB to my iMac. I have tried to set it up as a network printer and i have tried to use bonjour.
What am i doing wrong?

Not sure why, but sometimes you have to use a Color Postscript driver on Windows, even with Bonjour - so use Apple Color LaserWriter.

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Hello all.
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