HP c5280 won't work with airport on Snow Leopard

I have a HP C5280 connected via USB to an airport express unit. It's worked flawlessly on Leopard, but now that I've upgraded to SL, I get a message "Unable to open printer (read failure)!". If I connect my MacBook Pro directly via USB to the printer, it works fine.
Another oddity. My wife's Mac (still running Tiger) is also connected to the printer via our Airport network. I can connect to the printer through her computer and print out!
I've been in contact with HP, de-installed and re-installed all of their preferences, drivers, etc., but to no avail.
Appreciate any suggestions.
//Rick

Rick,
Question: on your Snow Leopard machine, does your printer appear under USB printers attached to the Express?
After all of your dealings with the drivers, preferences, etc, combined with the fact that directly connecting with the printer is successful, I suspect that the problem may lie with the Airport Express.
Whenever I have problems with my Airports, 9 out of 10 times it has to do with a firmware issue. This is especially true when some Macs can connect, while others (running different versions of OS X) cannot.
My advice would be to check to see if the Airport Express is running the latest firmware. I would use Airport Utility on wife's computer to access the Airport Express and run a firmware update check. Also, it may behoove you to do a hard reset after saving all of your settings and setting the Airport up from scratch (this, too, has worked for me from time-to-time; in particular, after a power irregularity in our building).
As a quasi-side note, I have so many Macs running different versions of OS X and Airports strung together, that the easiest way I found to avoid problems similar to yours was to use one Mac (the one kept on most of the time) plugged into our office printer with printer sharing enabled.

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