Airport Print Serving and Linux

I have a small ethernet wired network with three macs and one PC running Ubuntu linux. The printer for the network is hanging off an Airport-Express in my network closet. All the macs print fine but I need to be able to print from the linux box as well. As such, I need to know what protocol that apple uses to support the print server function. Or, I need some advice on setting it up with an SMB protocol. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Matt

Hi,
Sorry for delaying in reply.
Linux clients see page count. I've paused printing and checked some documents. Property page from a linux client document shows as this:
Documents sent from windows clients show same but they've document name and page count.
SPL archive copied from spooler printer on Windows server shows that info is present too:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: cairo 1.9.5 (http://cairographics.org)
%%CreationDate: Thu Jun 19 14:15:48 2014
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%DocumentMedia: Letter 612 792 0 () ()
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%For: (testuser)
%%Title: (Phaser 5500 Descarga del archivo)
%RBINumCopies: 1
%%Pages: (atend)
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%BeginFeature: *JobPatchFile 1
% Default Definitions
userdict /xerox$pagedevice <<
/MediaClass null
/MediaPosition null
/PageSize [612 792]
/TraySwitch true
/ManualFeed false
/ImagingBBox null
/ProcessColorModel /DeviceGray
/DeviceRenderingInfo currentpagedevice 1 index get 1 dict copy
/PostRenderingEnhance false
/Install {
xerox$old_install xerox$flip {
currentpagedevice /PageSize get aload pop translate 180 rotate
} if
>> put
<--- snip snip REMOVED FOR SIMPLICITY snip snip ------>
showpage
%%Trailer
%%Pages: 1
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
%%EOF
Linux client used official PPD file downloaded from xerox webpage for linux
cups. Windows server uses Xerox Global Print Driver PS 5347.600.0.0 type 3 with
Render print jobs on client computers as suggested by Alan before.
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A week ago, a new machine came in and – to align operating systems - I had to install Windows 7 (64 bits) also on my laptop (previously we were running Windows XP).
Then, I went on with the reinstallation of HP software, for the print server and the printer.
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Then, looking for information over the web, I read there was a known problem of incompatibility of the print server’s driver with 64-bit environment, and that HP was not going to rewrite it .
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%!PS-Adobe-3.0
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%%BoundingBox: (atend)
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userdict /xerox$pagedevice <<
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