shared printer vs network
 

We have a small office network printer (just an hp inkjet nothing fancy). It
is installed one one computer and for simplicity I decided to share the
printer instead of installing/configuring on each computer in my network.

Recently other computers will crash (or the applications actually) when they
try to print.
All computes on the network are xp pro sp3. Any ideas why something like
this would start to happen?

Do you think I will solve that problem by installing the printer on each
computer so they manage their own print jobs?