Cannot get printer online using airport express-totally confused right now.

Well, I got my airport express up and running. My iMac is in one room and the airport and the printer are in the other room (it is a second printer). My first printer is connected to my iMac via USB.
Cannot, for the life of me, get the printer in the other room, online, using airport. What am I doing wrong? I am clueless when it comes to these things, so it is probably something simple (and yes, the power in plugged in and on, lol).
I went to System Preferences>Print & Fax and it shows the printer OFFLINE, DEFAULT, but I am lost from here.
Thanks!!

I'm suffering from the same problem. Printer is HP Color Laserjet 2600n with driver 1.3.1, MAC OSX 10.6.1. Setup is airport extreme as router and gateway + airport express as wireless connection for the printer. Following the airport express help doesn't help. Next test is to check whether the printer work as a network printer when connected to the airport extreme station directly. Keep you updated on the progress.

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