Can't connect Airport Express & a HP Photosmart c4200 Printer

I think these discussion boards are great. I was hoping someone could possibly shed some light on a small issue I'm having connecting an Airport Express & a HP Photosmart c4200 Printer.
I have the Printer hooked up to the Airport Express, but when I go to print, I get a message telling me my printer is offline. My Airport express recognizes the printer and I have the printer on. I'm not quite sure what the problem is.
I'm relatively new to this so any help that someone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Is printer is detected in airport utility?
Is green light ON on your airport extreme? or orange light flashing?
Some printers are not compatible with airport extreme.
I had the same problem with my brother printer, all I did was turned my firewall off & restared the computer and airport extreme..wallah it worked than I turned my firewall back on.

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