Using airport extreme to share an ethernet printer

I'm sure this is supposed to be easy but I can't get it to work. I have a wifi network and an Airport Extreme. I want to use the Airport Extreme only to share an ethernet printer to other macs in the house. I'm using Airport Utility and have gotten my base station on the network. Now, how do I get to this printer?? My config tabs in Airport Utility are Base Station, Internet, Wireless, and Disks - I'm missing another tab that I see in on-line instructions of how to set this up (maybe because mine is old - v7.6.1). How do I ask if the Airport Extreme can see the printer I've plugged into it?

perfect, the printer has an admin page, but how do I get to it - how do I find out what IP address has been handed to it by the Airport - or does it just pass it through to the router?
I've also seen posts on-line suggesting that if the main router is not an Apple Airport, then the Extreme cannot share a printer. Is that right?

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