Sharing a printer from a PC to my Mac

I have a Epson Stylus Photo R300 connected by usb to a PC running windows xp home edition and I'm trying to share it via wireless network (I have a linksys wireless g router) to my powerbook g4 running osx tiger. I'm pretty good on a windows machine but this is my first mac so dumb it up please...
powerbookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hi ruffnready
Welcome to the Discussion Forums
No is the short answer. OS9.1 and above offered Printer Sharing for USB connected Printers using the USB Printer Sharing Extension and Control Panel.
Another possibility and its a very long shot, is to use a Software RIP (if one is available for that model). You could then broadcast the resulting virtual Laserwriter Postscript Printer on the G3’s ethernet port and any other networked computer could then, in theory, connect and print to it.
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