What type of port are you using on the Win7 computer for printing? Perhaps they were talking about converting a TCP/IP printer port to using LPR. If you have a TCP/IP printer port, and you open Devices and Printers, select your printer and near the top you will see "Printer Server Properties" on the "Ports" tab select the "Standard TCP/IP Port" and choose the "Configure Port Button" change the radio button from "Raw" to "LPR" and give it a port name something like "PORT1" should work fine. If you are not using TCP/IP printing then you could perhaps try adding a port, choosing "Standard TCP/IP Port"
try adding the IP address of the host of the machine sharing the printer and proceed from there converting it to and LPR port; however...