Airport Extreme - Printer Comes and Goes

Gentlemen,
adding a printer to my airport extreme was easy and it works fine. Untill I have to turn everything off for the night. When I start both the mac and the printer on again the printer disappears from the airport utility panel and I can't print anymore. To solve this, I have to unplug and then plug the printer in again to the airport base. Then everything is back to business.
What can I do to have all this solved?
Thank You!

I think you are experiencing something that is know around these forums as "a known issue". I have the same issue with my iDisk (an external disk connected to the Extreme). But I found that instead of unplugging the disk (which is in the basement and I am normally upstairs), I can use the airport utility and just go through the routine of clicking through all the panes so that the Extreme restarts. Then the disk is there again.

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