Airport express not printing in Mountain Lion

Installed Mountain Lion no problem but having trouble printing wirelessly to an Epson R260 connected to an airport express.  Worked flawlessly in Lion.  Now, I can install and reinstall the printer wirelessly but when it goes to print the process just "processes" and nothing happens.  The Epson site is not helpful.  It gives instructions for software update with the printer physically connected by USB, but following those instructions the app store says no updates (on anything).

I have three printers up and running connected to an Air Port Express,
and since I upgraded to Lion I can't connect to any of them, so I continued using SL on this MBP17.
System Preferences does not show any of my printers.
I opened Air Port and it says I need to update.
When I click on the update button, it takes me to the App Store, but no Air Port Software — What gives?
Now having the same problems with Mountain Lion.
Hoped ML would fix the problem, but NO.
I find I have to save documents to a flash drive and go to my old PowerMac G4 to print.
Steve we miss you. Apple is going to crap without you.
Message was edited by: random47 to fix typos and add information.

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