Wireless printer on Solaris 10 X86

Hi All,
I don't have any experience with printers in Solaris at all, so I'm not sure where to start.
I would like to get my Brother MFC 640cw printer to be seen from my laptop. The printer is connected to my wireless router and has a static ip address. My laptop is a dual boot with Windows XP and Solaris 10 10/8. The printer works fine wirelessly from the Windows side. I'm not sure what I need to do to get it working on the Solaris side. The Brother support site does not have Solaris packages for this printer, but I do see that they have some for Mac OSX and some Linux distributions. Is there a way to get my laptop to print on the Solaris side?
Thanks in advance,
Bob

Thanks for the reply Marco. I'm not sure what you mean by adding the printer manually. I tried using printmgr (which looks like it actually uses lpadmin in the background) and I keep getting an error message "lpadmin: Unknown option 's'!"
When I select show command line console, this is the line that errors out.
% /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p BRN_AFC819 -s malibu -v /dev/null -m netstandard -T PS -A write -o dest=192.168.5.4 -o protocol=bsd -o banner=always -I postscript -u allow:all
lpadmin: Unknown option 's'!
Not sure where to go from here.

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