USB Airport Express Printing Issues - HP Photosmart

Hi. When I connect my HP Photosmart directly to the iMac thru the USB cable, the Mac printer utility finds it, it can be added and all the utility software from the HP (like measuring ink levels, etc.) work fine.
When I connect it to the USB airport express port (so that I can print wirelessly from any computer in the house, and the Mac), I have issues. Funny, I have issues with the Mac only, not with the other windows computers (I installed bonjour for windows on the XP machines). But on the Mac, I just can't get the HP utility software to work fine.
Thoughts?

The HP Photosmart 7550 I know for a fact is not compatible with Mac clients via Airport Express. I wrestled with it for days.
Works fine connected via USB to the Mac.
Works fine via USB or Airport with Windows XP.
Does not work via Airport with Mac.

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