Printing to a Machine over the Internet

Not sure why it's so hard to find out how to do this but I can't find the information. Is there any place I can go to learn (in simple terms) how to do this?
I want to print to my Xerox Phaser 6300N which is at home from my computer at work through a Mac OS X machine I set up as my gateway using Flying Buttress Firewall software.
I have a static IP address on the gateway.
I have assigned an 192.x IP address to my printer.
I just need the missing information on how to make it work... I can open any port I need to and my ISP does not block anything from what they told me.
Thanks
Chris

First off, thank you for replying...
On the gateway at home, I have opened the 631 and 9100 port to point from my WAN IP address to the local (192) IP address of the same machine. I have 2 ethernet cards with filesharing turned on using Flying Buttress. So the IP address of the 2nd card is 192.168.1.1. So then from that 192.168.1.1, I had the firewall direct the connection to the 192.168.1.69 which is the printer.
I have also tried pointing the gateway IP address striaght to the printer bypassing the 192.168.1.1.
I wasn't sure what connection to open, UDP, TCP, so on a custom port config, I just said ALL.
Not sure if that answered the NAT question...
On the work side, I went to the add printer via IP address, used protocal LDP, set the IP address of my gateway with a :9100 and also tried :631
Queue I left blank
Named it Xerox, location left blank and then selected the correct driver.
When I try and print, seems like it just says the connection is busy.
I can print to the printer via IP address (LDP) within my localnet.
Thanks
Chris

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