Leopard 10.5.6 and HP Wireless printing problem

I have a client with a iMac 20" model, shes been having problems with her HP wireless printer for a while now (Photosmart 7280), its setup with static IP, installing the HP software, it can sense the printer, both Bonjour and IP, but when come to printing, it will start the queue as you would expect, but on the printer it simply display 'Printing' and thats it, it just sits there doing nothing else, you cant even cancel the printing, thinking its a fault with the printer, we went out and got her the latest HP Photosmart 8180, guess what ? it does the same thing.
I searched through HP forum, and people are blaming OSX that after 10.5.1 it broke the wireless printing, because I recalled that her old Macbook running tiger never had this problem with the old 7280 printer (sadly its been upgraded to the latest Leopard before Xmas)
With the new 8180 , I use my Notebook running XP Pro and connected to it wireless and printed first time, so the problem does seem like its coming from OSX Leopard, but sadly I cant find a solution, I posted twice on their messageboard but not a single reply after 2 months, so I am hoping that some experts here may have a solution or workaround to this.

dimsumbox,
I am probably having the same issue as you are. The "HP IP Printing" is not listed in the drop-down menu under "More Printers". As such, attempting to print over the wireless is not working.
Using a wired connection, and selecting "Default" I am able to add the printer and print to it.
On a home network, you may see the printer under "Default". Unfortunately for me, my wired and wireless networks are separate and this option does not work for me.
The printer in question is a Color LaserJet 3500n, and I'm attempting to locate how I can add the "HP IP Printing" option without reinstalling the entire system.
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