Advice on creating small Mac office network

Hello there!
I am setting up a small network for a non-profit organization, and came up with a few problems.
The main one being that I cannot send anything to print from Mac Minis on groud floor, to printer.
In order to make myself clear I have produced a graphic scheme of the network set up.
Everything runs on DHCP, excepto for printer that has a set IP.
I also wonder if I should change any IP on this network to fixed instead of DHCP...
Any help: much appreciated!

It looks like you have set up a basic roaming network. Please double check the following Apple Support article on the details on how these types of networks are configured to make sure nothing was missed when you setup yours.

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