Photosmart 5580 will no longer print from my wifes laptop, only from the desktop computer

Hello,
We have an HP computer with a photosmart 5580.  We also have a lynksis wireless network set up for the home for all of the kids laptops.  My wife and kids used to have the capability to print documents from their laptops.  I am not sure if it was going through the wireless network or the bluetooth technology on the laptops.  Recently we have run into the problem that they are no longer able to print from their laptops and even from the desktop we have not been able to print.  I have had to reinstall the printer onto the desktop 2 times to make the printer work.  But then a week or 2 later the computer stops recognizing the printer and I will have to reinstall it.  The desktop is only 2 years old but it is barely used since everyone has a laptop.  Also a friend of ours says that by doing a disk defrag on the computer that it messes up anything that we have connected to the computer.  I strongly disagree with that statement and like I told my wife, if that were the case then the printer would have stopped working last year, but she takes this friends advice seriously and told me to stop the defrags completely.
I am thinking that it may be something in the registry that is causing this problem.  Am I headed in the right direction or does anyone else have a different idea to correct this problem?
Thanks

Well, I think the problem is that the printer is getting a different IP address from the router periodically and the printer software cannot keep track of the printer.
The best way to fix this is to reserve an IP address for the printer so that it has the same IP address all the time.  Do you need help doing this? 
Unless I am missing something, this system is not using Bluetooth, but the Linksys 802.11 wireless system and defragging your hard drive has nothing to do with it (and is generally a waste of time, anyway).
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