Remote Downlevel Document - printing over the network

I have a PSC (Printer Scanner Copier) HP F380 connected to a windows pc in my network.
I'm trying to print trough the network over Airport.
I can add the printer (it's found under the WINDOWS TAB when I'm adding the printer) and I sucessufuly login using the windows usr/pass ... (I have the correct permissions set in the printer).
The thing is all the documents I sent from my mac (Leopard) are showing up in windows as REMOTE DOWNLEVEL DOCUMENT, and tough they have the right size (it's not 0kb), they never print.
I tried desabling bidirectional support as I read on the web, but it was no help.
Any ideas ? Thanks in advance,
Felipe, Brazil.

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If that doesn't help then see: iFelix's Technical Pages for XP and the Mac.

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