Printer plugged into airport will not recognize mac

We have an HP J6480 all-in-one printer that I recently connected to an AirPort device. We have two machines running Mavericks (10.9.2), my wife's iMac and my MacBook Pro, as well as an old iBook G4 (10.5.8), all of which are on our network. We are able to print wirelessly from each machine, but are unable to scan. The HP device is unable to find any of the three computers--whether from the keypad on the HP device, or the Image Capture application on the Macs. I have deleted and reinstalled the printer on all three machines, but have had no success in scanning. Is there any way of making this scanner work, short of hardwiring it to the iMac with a USB cable?

We are able to print wirelessly from each machine, but are unable to scan.
The USB port on the AirPorts will only support the print function. Other advanced functions like maintenance, fax, scan, etc......are not supported.
You will need to connect the printer directly to a computer if you want to connect using USB and have full functionality.
Ideally, the All-in-One device would have an Ethernet port, so you could connect to an AirPort router that way and have full functionality as well.

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