HP Color LaserJet 2500 and new Airport Extreme

I have tried to connect my HP Color LaserJet 2500 to
the new Airport Extreme USB port. Printer setup
utility recognizes the printer but when I print I it
always errors out. Any work around for this? I have
noticed two other postiings for other HP models that
are having the same problem. Is this a universal HP
problem?
Futher information on the printing problem. The GIMP driver works. It is available at http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/pSupportedPrinters.php3. This may be the answer for some folks with Inkjets or non-color LaserJets. It does not solve my problem because the GIMP driver only provides black and white support. No color.
Anyone know of an alternative driver that supports color?

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1. Had the Apple store Genius Bar folks install the latest HP drivers.
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3. Restart the HP Color LaserJet 3600
4. Connected the HP printer and MacBook Pro directly into a switch, so the wireless was not an issue (both machines had IP addresses set and computer's was set to DHCP with manual IP).
5. Instead of using the System Preference printing and fax tool, I started Text Edit, typed something and said "print".
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7. It found the HP Color LaserJet 3600.
8. I clicked on the name of the printer and the computer went out and found the driver
9. I clicked on "Add" and it added the printer.
10. I tried a couple of test prints in different programs.
11. I disconnected the hard wired ethernet cables and set the computer to be on the wireless.
12. I printed a few more test prints in various programs.
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Sigve

Hi
Thanks for Swift reply.
Yep - I in fact have two A1088 and one A1264
I actually bought the new router because the Jensen
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mad. The hope was that the Extreme should fix this. Both A1088 have been set up
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The A1264 has been set up to feed internet into a Denon Reciever that needed Ethernet cable.
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Regards
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When you have an older "g" device (the flying saucer) and a newer "n" device (the square one) in order for them to communicate using wireless only, you must configure both of them in what is known as WDS configuration.
This is a quite tricky setup for most users. The best set of instructions that I've seen for this comes from expert user Tesserax in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2355832&tstart=0
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I am a fitst time user of the new airport extreme time capsule 2TB. I have a mac book pro and an imac. I installed the router today and got my computers online wirelessly. BUT I cannot get my previous wireless printers to connect with the router.

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birdmanjay wrote:
... Apple tells me it is the printer mfr issue and printer companies tell me it is apple issue.
Arguably, they're both right.
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Apple's printing support documents contain a great deal of redundancy, but this one may be a good place to start: OS X Mountain Lion: Set up a printer to print wirelessly

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