Airport Extreme no longer see's Epson R320 Printer

All of a sudden i cannot print through Airport, i have to plug into USB port on my Mac Pro. If I try to print over the network its shows my printer offline.
Any ideas.

I tried adding the printer and configuring it with DHCP.  It DID then show up as a DHCP client, but the printer still wouldn't print documents sent via airport's ethernet port.  Finally gave up (until Apple fixes the firmware upgrade that caused this in the first place). Didn't really WANT TO, but I hooked the printer up using its USB port connected to the hub attached to the airport's USB port (the printer's network server supports parallel, USB, and ethernet), and it's working.  Only bad thing is that I exceeded USB 2.0's 16 ft limit by adding a 10 ft extention.  I suppose the powered hub is what allowed me to go 26 ft.
I had hoped that I could back out the last firmware upgrade, so went to Genius bar to find out how to do it.  Unfortunately, I was told there is no mechanism to back out an airport firmware upgrade.
So, for now I'm relying on a USB connection through the Airport Extreme (and the powered hub) to get wireless access to the printer.  Hopefully, someone at Apple will realize the mistake they made and fix it sometime in the future and I'll be able to go back to using one of the Airport's ethernet ports.

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