Setting up MacBook Pro with HP Photosmart C4780

I just bought my MacBook Pro and got an HP Photosmart C4780 printer with it. But I'm having trouble setting it up to work wirelessly (it's a wireless printer). It can't find my wireless network even though I'm sitting right next to it.
Can someone help me please?

I usually get the driver package off the HP website instead of using what's on the disk packed with the device.
I just bought my MacBook Pro....
If your MBP is truly "new" and not a pre-owned one that's new to you, there is a separate forum for the newer ones (black keys) here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=251
Their hardware is somewhat different than the older MMBP models covered in this forum so, should this be a hardware issue, someone in the other forum is more likely to have current experience with it.

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I am tired looking for an answer for my issue. I am 5 hours going in and out of blogs and foruns trying to set my printers on my recently bought Macbook Pro with Mac X (10.6.2).
At home I have a home network with on Windows Vista PC and one Epson TX105 Series printer, and I have a Windows Network at work where I am trying to set a HP Laserjet 1505n.
Both cases my notebook tries to reach the printer without success.
I've added the printer all the ways possible and I couldn't get my Mac to print. I've tried every configuration possible.
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No, I haven't. The Office's network administration does not allow me to do that yet. We scheduled to do that next week. (The other printer is installed at home).
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In my home network, the Epson TX105 is attached to a Windows Vista Home Premium PC ....
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