Windows 7 and airport express wirless printing

Hello,
i have a HP photosmart 7760 printer all working fine. what i wanted to know is can i show on each computer who is printing on the printer in the printer box. it shows what document is being printed from the local machine but not on the other wirless machine.
computer 1 - printing - shows in the printer box that this pc is printing
computer 2 - not printing - doesnt show whos printing wirelessly
what i want to show is
computer 1 - printing - shows in the printer box that this pc is printing
computer 2- not printing - shows that computer 1 is printing and what its printing.
Ajw901

Have you installed Bonjour for windows?
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/bonjourforwindow s.html
After you install it there should be a Printer Configuration file on your windows desktop. Also make sure your Printer is shared on the network by using inspector. Having Identical Login names and passwords on each machine has helped me quite a bit as well.
Good luck and good hunting.

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