You do not need any special software as long as the printer you are printing to has mac drivers. Do the following and it should work. Note there may be some tweaking of my directions depending on your specific setup. Since I do not know what version of OSX you are running there is one instance that will be different. I will mentioned that below.
1. On your Mac - Install the print drivers for the printer you are going to use.
2. On PC - Navigate to your printers list. Left click on the printer you wish to print to. Then Right click on the printer and select sharing. A window will open that displays the sharing information. Most likely you will have to run the "Network Wizard" to enable printing, assuming you have never networked the PC. If it has already been networked, just selected enable printer sharing. When you run the network wizard be sure you do the following things: Remember the name you assign the computer, choose MSHome for workgroup name, and at the end turn on print and file sharing. At the end of the wizard select finish do not make a disk or set up other computers. Then restart.
3. On your Mac -
3.1 If running OSX 10.5 do the following: Go to system preferences and select printers. Click the "+" sign to add a new printer. In the window that opens up select the "Windows" tab. Then "MSHOME" should show up at the bottom, navigate through to the name of the computer I told you to remember. Select the computer and a list of available printers should come up. It may ask for a user name and password, you should be ok to just click OK, but be sure you also click "remember in keychain" or else printing may require a password every time or just not work. Choose the printer and then in the bottom of the window navigate to the drivers that you installed previously then click add.
3.2 - Mac OSX 10.4 - On my mac running 10.4 originally I had to do something different than what I am going to tell you, but if you have 10.4 and what I tell you doesn't work, let me know and I can most likely tell you the work around. Open system preferences and choose print & fax. Click the "+" for add printer. Be sure "Default" is highlighted at the top of the window that opens. Then at the bottom select "more printers". Another window will pop-up and select "Windows Networking". From here hopefully it will say "MSHOME" below (If not let me know), then navigate to the PC you are using, and then to the printer. You may be asked for a user and password. You should be ok just clicking yes, but be sure to also click save in keychain, or you may have problems later. (If the password is wrong it won't let you select the printer). Next add the drivers from the list at the bottom and click add.
4. That should do it. Open a document, webpage, etc. and print a test page. If it spools but doesn't print there may be password issues or wrong driver, like I said it depends on your particular system.
Let me know if you have any questions.
