Compatibility Issue(s): Airport Express and HP Officejet 8500 Pro. How to enable network-printing?

Hello there,
I recently bought a Macbookl pro and now wanted to connect my Denon S 302 and my printer to my wireless network. Since the Denon S 302 cannot connect to my mac (since it's fireware is to old, so there are combatibility issues as well), I bought a "Airport Express station". The station has been configurated as a seperate wireless network, the stereo device (my Denon) and the HP Officejet were also connected. The stereo device with it's optical plug, the printer first over USB and then over ethernet conncetion.
The setup was quite easy, the stereo device is also working with my iTunes libary, so the connection from Mac to Airport Express is not the problem.
Also the printer is working correct, when it's plugged in my Mac... Both connection ways, the USB and Ethernet connection were not working, the printer cannot be activated it's status is offline.
Also the Manual does not really help.
The prouble shooting here linked a document to the HP site, which states, that my printer will not work with the airport express station, so is this ture???
Unfortunatly the warranty is exeeded, so there are no possibilities to connect the HP support via Mail or ask any questions..
Thanks for any help and advice in this case...

There is another problem:
The printer is recognized in the router setup, so it should work, but since I'm now using a Mac instead of my old Laptop, the router cannot forward the printer to my Mac, this only works with Windows PC's ...
I could post a link to the official help board of my telephone provider (the distributor of my router), but since this post is in german, it might not really help. But what was said, that it could work, if Apple would help them to get the right settings...
Now I'm trying again to connect the printer to the Airport Express, which is now connected to the existing wireless network, instead of building a new one...
So, are there any more possible solutions?
And thanks in forward for all your help...
Greetings from Germany

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