HP Photosmart 3180 shared from an Intel iMac

I connected my all in one to my bee-u-tee-full new iMac last week, and flipped on the sharing; piece of cake, right? Done it 100 times, right?
My wife gets home from her business trip, and her Macbook tells her the printer doesn't exist. I'm hard lined to a new Airport, she's wireless-the printer's usb'ed to me with the all-in-one driver. I reset the whole works a couple times, retoggled the sharing...nada.
I know shared printing connected directly to the base station only works with the 'print only' driver on this model, but that isn't acceptable-the whole point is it will double as a fax machine...
Any ideas will be lovingly considered.

Hi @jaebae7 , and welcome to the HP Forums!
I see you're having communication issues. I would like to help!
I would suggest deleting the printer from your print system, using this document: Uninstalling the Printer Software.
Once you have deleted it, I would suggest verifying and repairing the disk permissions: About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature.
I would also suggest running your Apple updates: OS X: Updating OS X and Mac App Store apps
After the updates, I would recommend readding the printer:
Installing a Mac Printer Driver Using Apple Software Update
Good luck and please let me know the results of your troubleshooting steps. Thank you for posting on the HP Forums!
Please click “Accept as Solution " if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
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Jamieson
I work on behalf of HP
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