Slow wireless printing with Airport Express

I have a Canon MP530 printer hooked up to an Airport Express for wireless printing. My wireless internet network is through an Airport Extreme. The only thing hooked into the Express is the printer, and it works but is extremely slow. It can take an hour to print one 15 page document. Any ideas how to fix this?

I'm not sure I understand your question, or at least I don't know how to tell connection speed with the utility. The express is set up as an extension to my current wireless network, although I'm only using it for printing.
I had a similar experience with a hard drive wirelessly connected to the Extreme - data transfer was ridiculously slow. Is this something to be expected with wireless connectivity?

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Some vpn software allows you to set gateway to use local net instead of remote gateway or access to other webistes or local lan.
Read up the issue.
http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/01/using-the-local-default-gateway-with-a-wind ows-vpn-connection/
Cisco vpn client..
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/239113
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Hooking it up is a hassle (have to go through a wall to get to the AE/DSL modem setup), and I ripped it apart after upgrading the canon drivers to no avail. I'll try it again to get the exact error messages if there's more than a snowballs chance in hades that this might work, but thought I'd at least find out if it's hopeless or not before throwing more time at this.
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There has been similar posts on this forum regarding wireless stability. A few have indicated that there printing was fine until the recent Airport Client Update 2009-002. If you check your System Prefs > Software Update > Installed Software list, have you also run this update?
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I have an HP officejet 7410 "all in one" printer that use to connect to my Imac wirelessly just fine but now I have to connect it to the usb cable to get it to print. my family has 4 mac bookpro's also and its hit or miss whether or not they will print so would it be best for me to shut everything off, connect an airport express to my modem and then restart everything? I'm just tired of fooling with it and know there must be a better way? Thanks!

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I got in touch with HP through their website. They sent me an email with step-by-step instructions. Here they are. Problem solved!
From HP:
Cause for the issue:
This issue may occur due to device or network conflicts.
Resolution:
Before we proceed with troubleshooting this issue, please confirm if the latest printer software (Mac os x 10.6 compatible) is installed on your Mac and the Mac is able to communicate wireless with the router.
If yes then continue with the following steps,
Step 1: Reset the Print System
1. Click on Apple icon
2. Select System Preferences
3. Click on Print and Fax
4. Click on the printer on the left side
5. Press the Ctrl key + click on Your printer icon
6. You will get an option to choose Reset Print system.
7. Click on Reset Print System. This will reset the print system.
Step 2: Repair Disk Permissions
1. On your Mac, click on Go menu from the finder menu bar at the top
2. Select Utilities tab
3. Click on Disk utility
4. Once the disk utility pops up, select the hard drive and click on Verify Permissions tab.
5. This may take some time to complete as the Mac will try to verify all the permissions for the hard drive.
6. Once the Verify Disk Permission is complete, restart the mac.
7. Follow steps 1 – 4.
8. In the 4th step select Repair Disk Permissions. Once the repair disk permissions is complete,
9. Restart the Mac.
Step 3: Re-add the Printer
1. Click on Apple icon
2. Select System Preferences
3. Click on Print and Fax
4. Click on the + sign to add the Printer
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Try Printing.

Lexmark does not support USB printing with Airport express

See email from Lexmark:
Hi Herman,
Welcome to Lexmark e-mail support. I appreciate your query into Lexmark.
Lexmark Inkjet printers are host based & work only USB attached. Currently Lexmark International does not support Airport Express on these printers.
If you have any more questions or concerns, please contact me at your convenience and I will be happy to assist you. (If I am not available, another representative will reply to you as soon as possible.) To respond, please select "Reply" in your e-mail software, and be sure that the past e-mail is included in this reply.
Regards,
Arshad
Lexmark Technical Support
***Original Message***
On Sun Jun 18th 03:20:53 PM EST 2006, hernan.
Dear Mamta,
Thank you very much for your support. I already tried what you
mention, but still without success. I downloaded again the x1100 all
in one driver but still I can't print.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Hernan
-----Original Message-----
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To: hernan
Subject: Re:Lexmark Technical Support (Req# 942782055)
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Thank you for contacting us regarding this matter. I appreciate the
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***Original Message***
On Sat Jun 17th 06:20:55 AM EST 2006,
hernan.>
I purchased the Apple airport express that connects
multiple
wireless-networked PCs to a usb printer.
is there a driver that can make this work?. I configured
the printer
according to the manual, received a test page and so on, but now it
takes ages to start printing and printing never gets to 100%
completion but to 99%. I am not able to cancel printing jobs and this
is a whole mess.
Best regards,
Hernan
vaio pcg-6c2l and IBM x40 Windows XP Both service pack2

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Error 6753 when printing with airport express

Hi all-
I'm trying to us my airport express to set up wireless printing from my PC laptop. Right now, I've got a netgear router and I -think- I've managed to con nect the airport express to join that network. My goal is simply to use the airport express to print wirelessly.
I've got a green light on the AX and printer is plugged in by USB. However, every time I try to print I get this: 6753 error.
Status: green light
Mode: join a wireless network
Wireless: it's got my network and pw. I've checked the "allow Ethernet clients" although I don't know if I need that.
Connect using: Wireless Network
Underneath this it says "This AX shares a single IP address with wireless clients using DHCP and NAT." Then it has connection sharing bridge mode, but this is greyed out and I can't select anything.
Printers: I see my printer listed, but when I click share printers over Bonjour I get an error message before I can update the AX. It says to edit and change it to a wide area host name.
Do I need to change some settings? Or what "wide area host" do I need to change it to?
I am very new at this. Thank you for any help!

Thanks... I will try that first. I've also been advised to delete the network and add a new one with the printer connected... but your idea is simpler.
M

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