Printing to a printer connected to a Mac through a PC?

Alright so I have been having this problem that has been going on for a few days now. Every night after I get home from school I spend hours trying to figure out how to get my Windows 7 laptop to print to my printer that is connected to my iMac.
Now, my iMac is not connected to my wireless router. My iMac is connected to my router using airport and the printer is connected to my iMac via USB.
I have installed the printer through Windows and then ran the drivers and the printer is on my computer. I go to print and in the queue all it says is "Spooling" and it stays like that for about 5, maybe 10 minutes and then disappears and nothing ever prints.
So then I installed Bonjour on my PC and ran that. It installed the printer again, but this time with a different name. I figured it would work because its an official Apple thing, and well, I assumed it would fix the problem... but it did not.
So I have tried troubleshooting, nothing works. I have printer sharing checked off on my Mac settings. I also have smb sharing for Windows computers. If it makes a difference, I can access my Windows computer as a server through my iMac to share files... don't know if that changes anything.
So yea, if anyone might know how to help me here I would greatly appreciate it. I have been struggling with this for days now and all I want is my setup to work correctly.
Thanks a lot!

Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Bonjour for Windows installed on Win7 is a good start. The Bonjour Add Printer Wizard will guide you through the install. When it gets to the printer model stage, select Generic PostScript. Don't use the driver for the model of printer you have - this can cause problems. Note that even if the printer you have does not support PostScript it does not matter because the Mac will convert the incoming spool file into the appropriate format to suit the printer.
Also, you will need to ensure that you have Printer Sharing enabled on the iMac. You mentioned having it "checked off". Not sure if this was a typo but please ensure this is enabled.
Pahu

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