Printing to shared printer on Tiger 10.4

We have an older iMac that has a printer connected via USB (Officejet 6200). It is shared via printer sharing and runs Mac OS X 10.4. The iMac is connected to a Snow (dual Ethernet) Airport base station. I could see it and print to it with 10.5 from my MacBook. After upgrading to 10.6 on the MacBook I can see the iMac, but I am unable to add the printer. Any suggestions or resources would be great!

Ok I mis-typed. The printer is on 10.3.9
We have an older iMac that has a printer connected via USB (Officejet 6200). It is shared via printer sharing and runs Mac OS X 10.3.9. The iMac is connected to a Snow (dual Ethernet) Airport base station. I could see it and print to it with 10.5 from my MacBook. After upgrading to 10.6 on the MacBook I can see the iMac, but I am unable to add the printer. Any suggestions or resources would be great!

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