Can no longer print wirelessly after SL install

I cannot wirelessly print to my Xerox Phaser 6130N following installation of Snow Leopard. I downloaded the 2.0 version of the driver from the Apple site, which enabled my MacBook to recongize the printer (finally!) when I hooked it up via USB. But printing wirelessly is no longer possible. Anyone have any suggestions?

Just to be clear here, there are several cases we are talking about
1) A USB printer hooked up to an Airport base station (or other network device that provides a USB print spooler).
2) A printer with build in Ethernet connected to your network.
3) A printer with built in Wireless connected to your wireless network.
Option 2 or 3 should work for any functioning print driver as long as that print driver is configured for a network interface. In the case of the HP printers, any printer that has build in networking the drivers are automatically configured this way.
Option 1 is a bit more confusing. As pointed out first, your printer driver must be enabled for networking, even if your printer doesn't have a network interface on it. We have in the past had drivers go out without this flag checked. There are no Snow Leopard drivers in this category (that I am aware of). The other problem that lots of people seem to be running into is that printing to a USB printer attached to an Airport seems not to be working for people who do not have actual Snow Leopard drivers. Unfortunately there are some HP printers that fall into this category.
That being said, InsaneMisha, your Officejet 6500 does have Snow Leopard compatible drivers, and since it is a network device, we can't turn off the network interface. So, if you can provide more details of what your problem is I may be able to help. And note to solve the problem may require re-installing the drivers.
Just trying to help.
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If your wireless network was changed, you'll need to make sure that the printer and all your devices are still connected to the network. On your devices, you'll need to go to the wireless network icons and re-enter your password - the same for the printer.
For wireless printing to be enabled, both the printer and devices need to be connected to the same wireless network.
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Hello there! Welcome to the forums @jdm2stl
I read your post about how you are having some difficulties connecting your Officejet 8100 to your Macs, over the network and USB, as neither seem to be working.
I will do my best to help and make good suggestions to you to see if we can get through this for you.
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