Home Network Printing Problem

I am having a problem printing on a home network. The printer (Epson D6 is
connected by USB to a desktop and is also installed as a network printer on a
laptop. The network is set up and running properly - the laptop can connect
to the internet via the desktop and file sharing between the two PCs operates
normally. The printer can be seen on both PCs - on the desktop it is set up
as a shared printer while on the laptop it is a network printer (with the
icon underlined in yellow). When I send a print job from the laptop it
appears in the print queue on the desktop with status as printing but the job
never prints. I have installed and reinstalled the printer on both machines,
installed a new driver and tried setting the printer to printing direct
rather than spooling but all to no avail. Printing from the desktop works
normally. Can anyone help please? OS is Windows XP Home SP2.

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