Printing to XP from Leopard. Can't. Frustrated.

I am trying to print from Leopard to XP. Lots of admin experience..
- I can print from my Tiger Powerbook with no issues. I've setup a ghostprinter/gsprint postscript queue that accepts postscript and feeds it to the HP 5610 queue marvelously. Config came from this link:
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/
- tried exact same config on leopard box - sometimes doc will show up in xp queue as type RAW and cause the whole system to become constipated. Have to dig in and empty queue manually.
- tried using Advanced> Windows setup the SMB url. Authentication dialog comes up (too?) quickly and authenticates with no errors to console or otherwise.
- document does not appear in XP queue
- tried LPD connection (have daemon running on XP box) and doc does not appear
- my last resort will be to physically move the printer to the Leopard box and try printing in the other direction XP -> Leopard
I will send you a christmas card if you can help.
Regards,
Shaun McArthur

I hate the HP printing dynasty. They need to be spanked.
I solved this issue by physically moving the printer to my leopard box.
Immediately, all my Macs (god bless 'em) could print and fax. No effort. Thank you Apple.
Then, from the XP network browser, I opened the shared printer and tried to bring up it's properties. XP complained about not having a proper driver installed, so I installed the first Apple Postscript driver that appeared and vi-ola, it's printing just fine (but not faxing - oh well).
Lesson learned. Printers go on Mac boxes, XP boxes are networked to the printers, until they are replaced with Mac boxes
Regards,
Shaun

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