Printing stopped over wifi with AirPort Extreme

I've had an Epson and Brother wifi printers setup to print wirelessly using an AirPort Extreme. This worked fine for over a year. Now, however, neither will print. I've reinstalled all drivers, reset the AirPort and I still cannot print to a Mac with 10.8.2 or an iPad 3 with iOS 5 or 6 with either printer.
I either get a printer error message that says "filter failed" or "printer offline".
However, when I create an ad hoc wifi network on the Mac, I can connect and print to the printers wirelessly on both the iPad and Mac with no problems.
I've also tried to print with a new Time Capule and was also unable to print.

I found the problem. I had an ethernet cable connected from the AirPort Extreme to my Comcast digital cable box. This caused the printer to be assigned an IP address in the range of 192.168.* instead of the correct range of 10.0.1.*. Simply, unplugging the ethernet cable from the AirPort and cable box and restarting the printer fixed the problem—I can print again.

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