Wired printer on an airport express from laptop not working

Hi,
Bougth an aiport express 2 weeks ago to replace a cisco linksys that suddenly stop working, the set up was very easy and wifi network is up and running, some devices are connected to the main network and some have issues doing it, particularly a mac laptop and a windows laptop, I created a guess network for these devices to access internet and that solved the problem however those two computers are the ones that need to print and because they are on the guess network sounds like that is not possible.
The lan port IP address on the airport is 10.0.1.1 so I assigned that IP address to the printer but somehow it doesnt work.
I had been disable and enable the credentials on the windows laptop but I'm kind of loss here.
Any ideas?
Thanks,

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If yes, unfortunately, the USB port on the AirPort Express does just what Apple says it will do.....print. Other advanced functions like copy, scan, maintenance, etc are not supported.
If you need to scan a document, you will need to connect the scanner directly to your computer.

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