Sharing a USB printer from 10.3.9 to 9.2

Hello,
I have a classroom with one eMac running 10.3.9, sharing an HP LaserJet 1300 and 4 flavored iMacs all running 9.2. I was able to configure a USB printer on 2 of the iMacs using Desktop Printer Utility, but the last two don't see any USB printers on the network. I'm running all 5 machines on static IP addresses and don't see any difference between the 4 iMacs.
I've already tried using article 107060 and configuring the last two machines using LPR, but was unsuccessful at that as well. I can connect to the OS X machine through the network, but not its USB printer. I also tried dragging the classic 9 network location file to these two machines, but it won't let me add it to the Network printers window.
Could someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Mike

I was just going by the help for OS 9 sharing a USB printer. It says to start USB sharing on the "host" machine, check the printer to be shared under My Printers, and then drag that printer to the desktop to create an internet location file for the printer. This file is then copied to the Network Printer tab under USB sharing on each of the machines that want to share the host's printer.
I've also tried turning off USB Printer Sharing and just adding the printer through Desktop Printer Utility but there are no USB printers listed when I try to "browse" the network.

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