My wireless connection to my HP printer keeps failing

I recently got a Macbook Pro and upgraded our printer to a wireless HP one.  Since I installed it to work wirelessly it has worked for a short time and then the Macbook says it cannot find the printer or cannot connect to the printer, even though the printer is on and connected to the wireless network.
I have removed the printer from my print & scan settings and reinstalled - it connected fine for around 10 minutes and then lost the connection again.  This morning having deleted it again, it was detected as a nearby printer and I'm able to print.  However this dropping connection and having to keep deleting and detecting the printer is annoying.
Five minutes later and the connection is gone again - the printer is on and functioning perfectly but my print settings show it as idle and when I try to print it just hangs and says cannot connect.  I have pinged it successfully and it does appear in my Bonjour bookmarks.
From what I'm reading on this supprt forum it seems that many different makes of wireless printers have this problem with the Lion OS.  I'm wondering if this is the case or is it something I'm doing wrong?  Until I read all the different threads I was intending to exchange my printer but it seems that may not fix the problem.
Any advice with this would be really appreciated. 

Mary Mouse wrote:
From what I'm reading on this supprt forum it seems that many different makes of wireless printers have this problem with the Lion OS.  I'm wondering if this is the case or is it something I'm doing wrong?  Until I read all the different threads I was intending to exchange my printer but it seems that may not fix the problem.
With you being able to ping the printer and connect to the internal web page of the HP via the Bonjour bookmark, then I would agree that exchanging the printer may not fix the problem.
If you connect to the internal web page of the printer, does it provide a section where you can see the signal strength and or quality? This may give some clues as to how well it is connected to the wireless network.
Another thing you could do is check if you can connect to the printer using an IP protocol like HP Jetdirect-Socket instead of Bonjour. If the printer does support this then it may prove more stable than Bonjour.

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