Setup USB printer wirelessly using Leopard Server

Heres my problem:
I have a HP Designjet 130nr. It does NOT have an ethernet connector at all, I connect it via USB.
I have it connected upstairs to a G5 tower (the tower running Leopard Server) and the G5 is connected to an AirPort Extreme. I have have unsuccessfully tried to find the printer via AppleTalk but it just will not be found. I do NOT want to connect the printer directly to the AirPort because I want to limit the users who have access to it. I have connected to the printer using Bonjour, but it will only find the printer, it won't actually print anything... And it won't give me any control over who has access to it...
I am trying to use Workgroup Manager and Server Admin to setup the printer and limit the use of the print to specific users and also set the limit of those users quotas.
Thank you for any help you can give, if I have been too vague please let me know how I can clarify!
- Jon

Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
I have never configured a USB printer via Server Admin. All of our printers have Ethernet so I have them configured via LPD and advertise them via Bonjour. I also don't use AppleTalk, I've never liked it as a protocol as its unstable with large spool files. So I cannot reply based on experience but I would still expect you to be able to see the advertised printer if AppleTalk is enabled on your server and clients.
Note that 10.6 doesn't support AppleTalk, so if there are any 10.6 clients you would have to look at using some other protocol.
Note that you don't have to use Server Admin to share the printer. I suggest you just install it first as a local printer on the server and then share it to check if the clients can first of all see it and print to the share. If that succeeds then you can look at using Server Admin to control the access to the printer and to set how the printer can be found on the network.
I suggest you have a read of the following document about Print Service Administration.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/Print_Service_Adminv10.5.pdf

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