Windows 8 and Bonjour Printer

All my Windows 7 computers recognize the USB printer connected to my AirPort Extreme via Bonjour, but my new Windows 8 laptop cannot find it. Does anyone has the same issue? Does anyone has a solution? Thanks.

I second to this one.
Instructions fromthat site work without using Bonjour.
You pretty much create a new TCP/IP printer port, enter the AirPort's IP address in, pick a eneric network card, pick a driver for your printer and you're done.
PommetteInSpain wrote:
I know this is on an Apple forum but . . .
I have just discovered that you don't even need Bonjour to print!
If your printer is plugged in via a USB connection to your Airport then just go to this site and follow these steps.
http://tech.ifelix.net/1004.html
Yes - I know it says it's for XP but I have just done on both a Windows 7 and Windows 8 laptop.
Read carefully and follow the instructions - don't just follow the pictures - and it will work like a dream.
I have never been able to get Bonjour working on Win 8 although it was working on Win 7 until last week when I installed all the lastest updates and then . . . ZILCH! Prints would spool but not print.
This method is quicker for printer too rather than using Bonjour.

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Hi Mike,
Bonjour is a service discovery system. It doesn't
print. For
that you use ipp or lpr, etc. The reason why
Appletalk works
is that it has its own discovery system. It's older
and
apparently more reliable. Bonjour uses muticast ip
but
unless muticast requests are forwarded can't get
outside
a local subnet.
Once on your net was a machine - probably a samba
server -
named "maul". Must have been, it's in a mib
somewhere. Oh
wait - maybe it's cached in the dlink from its old
days on
the dark side!
Judging from the direction of the slash it was a
Windows
machine (I don't think that's an octal 321). CUPS
thinks
that's where the printer is. Normally cups discovers
the
printers via bonjour, and bonjour must be coming
back
with the wrong info!
But bonjour isn't that smart, something must be
tricking it.
There's a wonderful free utility called "Bonjour
Browser"
which will show you which services are being
announced.
Give it a try:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2162
2
Let me know what it shows under ipp.
-Phil
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