Airport extreme and Printing : a solution that works for me

I post a new topic in order to avoid people going throught various topics.
_Explanation of the problem I had :_
When I plugged directly my printer (xerox 6110) to the usb of my PowerBook it worked fine. When I connected the same printer with the same cable to the usb port of my airport extreme (square model), I was Apple to install it throught bonjour on my laptop and my IMac. But I was only able to print trhourght textedit, and not throught word, excel, safari, etc. When printing from this application, after a while I had a page print with a timeout problem.
Solution (thanks to the following post : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1201663&tstart=0 )
After trying drivers, and lot of other things, I tried what suggested in the topice above : I changed my USB cable that was connecting my AE to my printer : and now IT WORKS.
It is strange because I was able to print directly throught USB using the same cable, but not using my AE.
But anyway It work now !! This is the most important ! a lot of thanks for your help.
Hope it will help some of you

Ohhhh, Silly, silly moi. Ok, got it. Now I see "Partition". Thanks! Will try again. Downloading Windows support software as I type.
Thank you.
One more thing - while attempting installation the first time (before I stumbled on this thread) - I looked up YouTube re how to create a USB bootable ISO (which included editing the info.plist file in Boot Camp Assistant).
When I tried installing 8.1 from the ISO, the installation aborted saying "cannot find resources" (something like that) - this occured after the first stage, i.e. while "preparing files to install Windows".
Assuming I get this again (I hope not!), is it because of a corrupted ISO?

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Message was edited by: Lauren R
Message was edited by: Lauren R

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