HP Deskjet F4100 series printer and AIRPORT EXTREME

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I have an HP Deskjet F4100 printer attached to the USB port of the AIRPORT EXTREME. Printing a very simple and small text document wirelessly from one of my Windows Vista Laptops works fine, but when I try to print a more complex page, the print spool shows a print error and restarts printing the page. This is the case for the Windows Test Print Page for example. I bought the AIRPORT EXTREME to provide wireless printing capabilities at home. When the printer is attached directly to the laptop, printing is fine. Thank you for your help.

I have set more options in the Printer Properties for the AIRPORT attached printer.
Since color printing seems to not work properly, I have set the color options to use greyscale. This is not an ideal solution, but it atleast presents a printed page that is consistent.
I have also removed the bidirectional mode on the PORT tab in Printer Properties.
If ANYONE has had any good results with color printing using this printer on the AIRPORT EXTREME, please add some comments or suggestions! Thanks!

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