Airport Express can find printer but can't print to it?

My wife wants to be able to print from her iPad to our printer (Epson RX680). The printer itself is not wireless but I was told the main purpose of the AirPort Express is to give your printer wireless printing capability. Here's my rundown.
Mac Pro desktop (2007) running OSX (10.7.2)
AirPort Express (latest firmware update)
I have the AirPort Express plugged in, ethernet cable from port 1 in my router connected to AP Express, USB from my printer into the AP Express. Print Sharing is on. Ran AirPort Utility. I believe I used AirPrint Activator to get my printer to be recognized. I don't have and AirPort card in my Mac Pro so I'm not able to test printing from my computer but AirPrint does not work from an iPad or iPhone. I tried a reset several times in hopes that trying several different set ups would work.
I emailed Epson. This printer is not listed as an AirPrint printer. They said I'd need to contact Apple. So if my printer is not capable of AirPrint then what good is the AirPort Express? Apparently if I had an AirPort capable printer I wouldn't need the AirPort Express to print anyway?
Anyone know how to get the AirPort Express to work with nonWiFi printers? Thanks.

Thanks for the info. I think you may have mixed things up a bit. The link that Tesserax provided mentioned that AirPrint Activator was now known as Handy Print.
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Airprint Activator, now known as handyPrint, is an app that lets you put Airprint support on older printing devices that do not natively support this protocol.......

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