Winblows user getting pummeled by old mac.. Printer install question

Hello All,
Forgive my stupidity, I`m researching how to do this without much luck, so I thought this would be a good place for help..
Trying to print files off an old Mac quadra 840av.. Can someone tell me what printers are natively supported or how to install a printer driver or what printers have mac drivers to print off the necessary files? It is currently running OS 7.5
It does have an external scsi drive I can put all the files on, but then, and correct me if I`m wrong, I`ll need to purchase software to be able to read these files on a PC.. So printing them seemed to be the best bet.. They are old tax files etc, so a printed copy is just fine by me if I cant access them somehow via PC. Any help/insight is most appreciated.

Configuring the printer? Hmmm? These are Macs! I've always just plugged the printers in and they print (assuming power on and ink or a ribbon available). When your operating system is installed, it puts printer drivers for printers in the Chooser folder in the System Folder. If you have a printer not covered by the default bunch, then one has to install the printer drivers for that printer, which usually came with the printer on floppies or a CD (depending on age.) Some of the printer manufacturers keep downloadable copies on their websites, but some, like HP, remove them when THEY think they're "obsolete" and won't make them available. Then one has to search on the internet for some of the sites where old drivers are collected and made available for download.
If you can transfer the files to an external scsi drive, then any other later Mac with an external scsi port should be able to use them up through the PowerMac 9600 series and the beige G3s. However, along about there Apple switched from stock scsi ports and they had to be added through a pci card. However, later Macs with a PCI card should still be able to read your scsi hard drive, provided you have a scsi cable to do the connecting: there are at least three or four different scsi connector styles and you might need an adapter cable, depending....
Reading the files on another Mac could be done by the program which made them originally, or depending on what type of files they are, by any number of other programs, often even freeware or shareware programs. Unless they are ASCII text files, reading them on a Windows machine is more problematical. There is the Apple File Exchange control panel which might be able to translate the file into a Windows format you can use. Also, the commercial program MacLinkPlus can translate a lot of different file types, too, which make them readable on Windows. However, if you are talking about some esoteric file type, then MacLinkPlus may not be able to do it.
The only other adjustment is the Page Setup off the File Menu, which just has some obvious choices for printing your page.

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