Ethernet Printer Connected directly into Airport

If I connect a printer (in this case an Xerox Doc12) to the ethernet port of an Airport Extreme or Airport Express Base Station can I then print to it wirelessly?
Like you can do for USB printing.
I have bought a Xerox Doc12 and it will only fit in my garage, my wireless enabled G5 Tower is two floors up and I need to send jobs to it that way as I dont have an ethernet lead long enough to send it by a wired ethernet connection. Hope that made sense.
Ur help would be greatly appretiated.
Thanks in advance Karl

I don't know that printer, but I do have an Xerox Phaser 8200 that prints wirelessly via the ethernet port on an AEBS. You just have to give it an IP addy and when you set up your printer, use that in the wizard.
A little tougher to configure, especially if folks that don't already have the printer set up on their machine try to print, but it works fine. Hopefully it will work the same for your Xerox.

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