Printing through the network

I have heard the I can print through my wireless network. Just where do I have to go and what do I have to do to get that going ? I want to be able to print to a printer upstairs from a pc downstairs. The pecee recieves a signal from my wreless router by my macpro.
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This whole thing began when I asked the tech at school if he had ever used a bluetooth printer. He reponded by saying, "Why would I ? I can just print through the network," I had been thinking of getting a bluetooth printer so my partner could print from downstairs, The printer upstairs prints through the usb cable from the mac pro. No ethernet connection no blutooth on this printer. So this is what leads me to the question.
So it's the printer sharing I need to look at in system preferences ! Thanks. It's got to be possible to go cross platform. I print from both pc and mac to a printer in the room next to mine at school. I've never done anything but add printer from an available printer list which is identifiedby room number or entering the ip address for the printer. I've not needed to do anything about sharing printer in settings. Would this mean the mac pro which it's connected to needs to be on to print from the pcee downstairs or just that the network be active ?
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