Whoa, I ain't ready for that yet.
This computer will be for reference for school work. Alot of it will be for entertainment ~ browsing, pictures, music, videos.
She will probably never even come close to using all the memory on this thing.
I have had an entry level home Dell desktop for four years and do the same type things. I haven't used a fraction of my memory.
But we will keep it in mind and play that by ear...
She might not fill the hard drive, but the system memory (the RAM) is different. XP is only beginning to warm up with 512mb, and really only hits its stride at 1gb. It's worth the fifty-sixty bucks.
I think you are comfusing RAM and hard drive space.
But anyway, back to the original question, I don't think it should be a problem at all to print. Do you already have a home network established, like for being able to share folders between computers and stuff? MS knew people would be mixing their Vista machines with existing XP networks. Have you tried simply adding a network printer and seeing what it does? (First making sure it is 'shared' under the printer properties on the XP machine).