Printing problem from usb on airport extreme

Hi guys,
Anyone come up against this problem whch is sending me up the wall.
I've just purchased Airport extreme and my ibook works great wirelessly and I've used a lan connection to my windows pc which also works fine.
Using the usb port on extreme I've connected my epson cx3200 printer. The ibook prints fine wireless, but when printing from the pc it prints one line and stops..
Eventually the error window on the pc say "failed to print the document etc".
I've searched all the trouble shooting but nothing seems to work.
Any ideas
Many thanks
Gord ggg

Yes, it is in installed and I've used the Bonjour wizard and only once have I had a oage print successfully.
Cheers

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