Printer needs restart to print with WiFi

I moved my older G4, with OS 10.4.xx to our kitchen for my wife to use. I installed an Airport card in the computer as I have no hardwire connection in my kitchen. The G4 work fine with the internet, but it will not print to my network printer whenever I take the G4 out of sleep. If I restart the printer, printing works fine, but once the G4 goes to sleep and then awakes, it cannot find the printer on the network. The printer is a Dell Color laser 3110cn. This same compuet worked fine printing when it was hardwired to the network, no WiFi.
Any ideas?

I found a new clue. I have a portable MacBook Pro and it also has the same printing problem when I connect it to my network wirelessly. I cannot ping the printer either, but my commuters that are hardwired to the printer, but through the same router have no issue with ping or printing. My network is all static IP addresses. I use 10.0.0.xx for all the addresses.
A little more about my network my help figure the problem out:
I have 4 macs 2 hardwired 2 WiFi
The printer is connected to one of the ports on the my D-Link DI-625 WiFi router.
Port1 : Another Router wired
Port2 : Dell Printer
Port3 : VoIP Telephone
Port4 : Spare for MacBook Pro direct connect.
WAN Port : DSL Router
Second Router
Port1 : Connection to WiFi Router above (Port 1)
Port2 : eMac G4
Port3 : MacPro
I did have the printer connected to the Second Router, but moved it to the first to see if it fixed the WiFi printing problem, but it did not.
Hope this additional information helps.

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