Printing to a printer shared on a PC from a Mac

I have a PC running Windows XP Pro connected to a home network.
I am trying to print to a Canon S530D printer shared on that PC.
I can see the printer in the printer setup utility on my Mac but I don't know what to choose as the printer model, generic doesn't work. It seems windows needs to use specific drivers to print to, as when you connect to this printer from other PCs it installs the drivers from the one hosting the printer.
Moving the printer onto the Mac isn't an option.
Any advise is extremely helpful to me.

Even though the printer is attached to the PC, the Mac is the one sending the print commands, so the Mac drivers must be installed on your iMac for it to print.
I learned how to do this with the help of iFelix and Joel Shoemaker on their excellent websites.
If the Canon drivers found HERE do not work, try the open-source drivers. There is a great page HERE that helped me with my HP printer.

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Please let me know if you can print a complete job now.
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Hello Joe,
I failed the login “connection to server with username and password not possible - Failure 256”
Some cures here...
http://archive.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/691131/site _id/1#import
One more way to overcome stubborn printing to a Windows® printer from a Mac...
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301397
iFelix...
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3020.html
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/windowsxp.html
I did not succeed using the PC’s name - even though the workgroup is set correctly.
Might try Bonjour for Windows...
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/windows/bonjourforwindows.html
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