Printing to a printer connected to a wireless DSL Router (BT Home Hub)

Hi as a newbie (sub 1 week) to apple and wishing I had started years ago (all the family want mac now) I have managed to do everything I want except integrate my network printer.
I have a BT Home Hub which supports network printing on a specific IP address, all the families windows based pc's laptops can print to 192.168.1.253. I have tried scouring the internet for clues and apples support pages but found nothing that works.
I am connecting to the hub using airport and can see other pcs on the network, so sharing windows based files isn't a problem.
Nay help is gratefully received

No, the problem wasn't ever solved. So I compromised and finally hooked up the free printer that came with my Mac. Although I wasn't able to share a printer, I was able to access files and print them kind of the hard way by enabling windows sharing under Sys Prefs > Sharing > Windows Sharing. And then you need to click on accounts and enter your password. Then use the key that the Mac gives you (Should be something like \\192.168.1.1##\shortname) and then on your PC, go to "My Network Places" and click on "Set up a network place." When prompted choose to enter the location yourself and enter the number address given on the Mac. After that a box should pop up asking you for your name and password (which is that of the Mac) and then you should be able to access all of the files that are on your Mac from your PC and print directly that way. Hope that helped someone. And if anyone can still help me print wirelessly, please do!
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