Printing to my network printer

I am exhausted trying to get this to work. I am new to mac. Im trying to print to my network printer.
This is my situation. I have multiple PC's all using windows 7 ultimate on my windows 7 homegroup named WORKGROUP. This has been working fine for months. I use one printer, a samsung scx-4300 on my main PC. Through homegroup, all other pc's print to this printer seamlessly.
I just bought a macbook pro iOS 10.6.4. I have tried searching this forum and all over the net for a way to set up my new mac to print to this printer but cant make any progress on the issue. Through forum help, i can now see my macbook in "my Computer" on the other pc's and can look through its files, so there is some communication from my pc's to my macbook. But i cannot see the other pc's from my macbook finder. this may be the issue, not sure.
when i try to print, i go to add a printer, from there i dont know what to do. I click on the windows tab in add a printer but i get nothing.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks

First, select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "printing." Also see:
Mac OS X- Cannot locate a shared Windows printer
Mac OS X- How to manually add a Windows shared printer
OS X v10.6- Mac 101 - Printing
Set Up Your Home Network, Windows 7 Edition - PC World

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