Wireless Printing for my Macbook???

I recently bought a HP Photosmart C4580 Wireless Printer. It's hooked up to my I- MAC and working fine. Does anyone know how I can enable my macbook to send documents so I can print to it? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!!
Thanks!!!

Hey!
I am "that guy" that got my hp deskjet 5850 working at home.
Question for you... Do you have the printer connected directly (USB) to your iMac or do you have it connected to a home network?
Choosing the type of Network Printing, wired or wireless
If you want to print wirelessly from any machine within range, you should connect the printer to a switch/router. This could either be by physical network cable, or wireless to the switch/router.
If you choose the network cable connection, installation goes a bit quicker.
If you want to set up everything wireless, you still need to use a USB or network cable to setup the printer, then you can unplug the network cable and it should connect to the network using DHCP like your MacBook.
Wireless Network Printing (Access Point, Router)
This hp photosmart has some instructions on how to get started:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01659524&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us &product=3418707&lang=en
Step 1. Print a test page to get the Network Settings for the printer
(see the above link for step 1) - kinda simple
Step 2. Get the info for you wireless network.
*First: SSID* you need to know what the Wireless Network is called (SSID)
*Second: Login for Router*, its good to know how to log into your router by typing in its IP address in a browser, typically the IP address is 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.0.1 or something along those lines.
*Third: Security* Is your network encrypted WEP/WPA with a passcode/password? Are you filtering by Machine Access Code (MAC) address for each wireless machine?
No security at all? Its up to you
Step 3. Install the hp driver for Mac OS X, on you iMac... later you need it for your MacBook too.
Download this driver:
HP Photosmart Full Feature Software and Drivers - Mac OS X v10.4 and v10.5
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software10/COL23697/mp-61314-1/HPInstaller_PSC4500v9.8.dmg
(again, take a look at the Installation link at the top for how to install the driver)
If you noticed with the install, when you try to CONNECT TO THE PRINTER, THROUGH THE NETWORK you will get an error first... then you have to use the USB cable with your iMac, and then finish the setup.
Now the printer is setup to work wirelessly, it should find the Router each time you turn it on, and connect after 1-2 minutes. (it needs to obtain an IP address first using DHCP, which should be the default)
You can try it with the iMac first to see if it works, then install the driver on your MacBook and connect to the Printer Through the Network... and this time it should find it without connecting a USB cable or anything else.
IF THIS DOESNT WORK, SELL IT ON EBAY AND BUY SOMETHING ELSE
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