Printing wireless thru PC to mac

I have a epson printer hooked up to win xp. I am trying to print wirelessly from my mac. The printer prints but it prints computer info not the text that I wanted. Any help would be appreciated.

Probably a driver issue.
Printing to a printer on a XP PC from a Mac running 10.4.x
http://tech.ifelix.net/3015.html
If you can't find the driver you may need to use a third-party driver such as the HPIJS drivers or the Gimp-Print drivers, but this is not the case with all printers.
A way around this is to make your PC into a postscript RIP/server (it translates postscript and sends the result to the printer)
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/
iFelix

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