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Yes.
I realize it's all a bit fuzzy in your memory at the moment, but you still haven't said what you actually RAN to "install" the printer on the laptop? Was it that 290MB download file from HP? I would have thought so, since that is the Win7 installer for software/drivers for this printer.
But if the printer is USB-connected physically to the other Win7 desktop machine, why would you run the installer on the laptop??? There is no printer connected to it.
Anyway, on your laptop I would UNINSTALL everything you installed, by going to Control Panel -> uninstall a program, and find anything in the list that appears related to the HP C5180 printer and all related HP application software dealing with the printer. You may have to re-boot.
Then look in Control Panel -> Devices and printers, to see if the C5180 is still there. If it is, right-click on it and select "remove device", and follow the wizard steps. You may have to re-boot.
I'm a bit confused because what you may be seeing could be left over from when you had the whole setup working, when the printer was USB-hosted and "shared" by your 32-bit WinXP desktop. You seem to have simply changed desktop machines, but apparently didn't do everything you needed to do on the laptop side to get rid of the old printer connection arrangement so that you could start fresh, given that the printer was now newly hosted by your new 64-bit Win7 desktop.
Anyway, you want to uninstall and remove EVERYTHING YOU USED TO HAVE... whether it was the old printer definition from the WinXP desktop setup, or whether it is current from your attempts at getting things to work. Everything must go.
Your laptop is a "client" in your arrangement, and the desktop machine is the "server/host" of the shared printer which is USB-connected to the desktop machine.
That's the architecture, and that's the basis for what you will do to get it all working.
Well you don't have the printer connected to the laptop, you have it connected to the desktop. So I'm not surprised something looks strange, and that you of course cannot print.The laptop shows the printer as default printer but it's transparent and unable to print.
Uninstall all software, and delete/remove/uninstall that printer object.
And please answer the question about what you did to get the C5180 installed and usable from the new 64-bit Win7 desktop machine to which it is USB-connected. Did you run that 290MB installer file from the HP site on that machine? Did your fresh install of Win7 simply support the printer "out of the box" with nothing extra needed from HP? (I doubt this was the story, based on what I can tell from my research).
It may be advisable to also uninstall/remove/delete the printer as currently installed on your 64-bit Win7 desktop machine, in order to "start over" there as well. I believe that 290MB installer file from HP is what you SHOULD have run, if you didn't. I would like to start over there as well.
But please "fill in the blanks". Is your C5180 currently installed and usable from the desktop machine?
And in Printing Properties -> Sharing tab, DOES IT SHOW "SHARE THIS PRINTER"??? And what is the NAME you have specified for that shared printer on that same tab?