Share Win XP Printer with OS X Lion

It appears to be impossible to print directly to my Lanier 5622 printer with 10.7 (due to network and/or driver difficulties), so it has been suggested that I enable printer sharing on the office XP machine and print everything through there. Problem is, the website I was given with setup instructions doesn't help me with Lion.
What's the quickest, most painless way to do this?

For some reason Apple does not want to let its user Sharing/Print to a networked  printer as this is a ongoing problem.
They even suggest that the printer be connected to the computer by USB during the setup of the drivers for the printer.

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