USB Printer Sometimes Not Recognized on Reboot into OS X from Windows XP

Thanks in advance for any help. Here's the situation:
Everything works fine in OS X (10.5.2). In particular I have a USB laser printer that works find (Brother HL 2040).
Then I boot via Boot Camp into Windows XP and play a few games. Then I reboot out of XP and back into OS X. At that point sometimes the printer works and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't work what happens is that I will send a page to be printed, but nothing happens. Then when I shut down (or restart), the page will print.
I'd like to be able to print without having to shut down the computer - any help would be appreciated!

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