Airport Express with HP PSC 1410 printer

I have an airport/airtunes express and have an HP PSC 1410 all in one printer. I can't get it to work as my "network printer" I was surfing the Apple website looking at FAQs and it directed me to the HP site. There are a list of known printers that were compatible with airport express. Mine didn't show up....BUT, the information was very vague. Does anyone know if this will work, or is the "all in one" messing things up? I assume you can't scan and receive data via 802.11b from the Airport Ex.
Thoughts?

When connected via an Airport Express or Base Station, basically all you can do with a printer is "print". It is *not possible* for any make/model of printer to do any of the following:
1. scan or fax on with a multifunction printer
2. check ink levels, or any other printer status
3. clean print heads
4. use any printer utility software provided by the printer manufacturer
Paper choices are usually a function of the printer driver, and are therefore always available. Some photo printers won't allow options like borderless printing to work - but issues like this seem only to be known through discussion forums like this since they are rarely publically documented by the printer manufacturers.

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