Printing to Airport HP Printer from HP Vista PC

I have had no problems using Bonjour to connect my existing Computers to my Airport Bonjour printer (a HP 3050) It works from my 2 desktop PC's, My Laptop PC, and my Mac.
I am replacing the oldest PC, with a new HP TOUCH 815 running Vista (all my old pc's run XP).
Bonjour's set up wizard located the airport hp printer, and sets it up no problem, but documents sent to the printer, fail to print, with an ambiguous "error while printing" message.
I've tried re-installing bonjour, and downloading new drivers for the hp 3050, as well as using a few generic drivers.
I am able to print when i connect the printer directly to the PC
What have I missed?
Paul

Mackteach wrote:
I, too, am having the same problem. I have a Toshiba A315 with an Atheros AR5006X Wireless connection and am having absolutely NO luck connecting! :PPP
I suspect that it may be a channel issue in this case.
Airport Extreme base station channel is on "Automatic"
http://tech.ifelix.net/2002.html
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