Sharing an HP printer between 2 PC's

Hi!
I've been trying to figure out a way of using the same printer with 2 PC's. The printer is an HP Officejet 5610v All-in-One, one of the computers is brand new... an HP Pavilion PCp6674y running on Windows 7. The other one is a Compaq Presario SR1923WM running on Windows XP... I've tried a million different ways to share the printer through a network nd stuff but I've been unsuccessful. PLEASE HELP!!!!
THANK YOU!!!

I would suggest you install the driver on the XP machine and share the printer. (See here for help if needed.)
Next, on the Windows 7 machine go to the Devices and Printers folder, Add a Printer, Local Printer, Create a Port, Local Port, \\XPComputername\Printername (use the actual share name for the XP computer and printer), OK, then click on Windows Update, wait for the list to repopulate and then select HP (not Hewlett-Packard) Officejet 5600 Series (HP).
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