Sharing windows hp printer with solaris

hi
I have hp laser jet P1102 printer which i want to share with solaris. I have added the printer in solaris using lpadmin but i am not able to print to this printer.
I have another printer which is laserjet 1320 which is added to solaris box in the same way and i am able to print without any issues.
i would like to know if there is any step to know if a printer would print successfully from unix.
looking forward to your support.

thank you very much for your reply
so when i buy a new printer i how do i know it will be able to print from solaris. By comparing the above two printers i can see that one printer is Postscript enabled which is actually printing from solaris. So if i buy a printer that supports posscript will it print properly?
please correct me if my understanding is wrong becuase we need to buy a printer which will print from solaris.
Edited by: unus on Aug 20, 2011 2:04 AM

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