Airport Extreme losing USB-printers

I have the latest airport extreme conected to two printers (a HP 1020 and a Canon 3000) through a hub. I purchased this to solve my problems and not to create new ones... Anyway, my problem is that the printers do not show up in airport utilities. Or, in fact, they DO show up occasionally and I have been able to print to them but if I disconnect the cable or restart the AE they disappear. Sometimes they show up after about 4-12 hours and sometimes (like now) they don´t.
It´s totally annoying, impossible to trace and very, very unlike apple to have a product that doesn´t just work.
Help anyone?

Just a note: sorry about the double-posting of this. I waited for two minutes and nothing happened, then I pressed "post message" once more and BAM! A duplicate post!
I also would like to point out that there´s the same problem wheter I use firmware 7.3.1 or 7.2.1.

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Message was edited by: ksquare77

ksquare77,
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