WDS network and printing

Having probs trying to connect to a HP c5180 on our network...
Setup is 2x Netgear WNR3500 routers, one as a wireless base station, one as a repeater. Printer is connected via ethernet to the repeater (as it's up in our office), and it gets an IP fine, and works fine on an ubuntu desktop.
But... my macbook Pro is having probs. I can't see the printer at all over bonjour no matter if I'm connected to the base or repeater stations, and if I manually add as an IP printer, I initially see it and can send jobs, but then it states the printer is busy and won't print.
Any ideas? Have enabled RIP on the base station, but that made no difference. Also disabled IPv6 on my macbook pro to see if that would work.

PS - FYI, in both situations, the hard-wired AX is set up as WDS main, and the AX connected wirelessly for Airtunes is set up as WDS remote; and connection sharing is set up as "off - bridge mode".
Thanks again for any help.

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