Wireless Network Printing Issue

Hi there,
I use an Airport Express to put a wireless arm onto our offices mac-only network. Everything was a-ok but, over the weekend, the express seems to have reset itself it changing its name back to 'Apple Network 43124'
I reconfigured and everything seems to be working fine - internet, mail, network connections from machine to machine - BUT the printers have disappeared. No one on wireless can see them despite the fact that colleagues connected to the network via ethernet can see and print just fine.
Any thoughts?
Airport Express is firmware 6.3 and the various computer on the network are 10.3.9 or higher
Thanks in advance
Ben

Sorted.
All I had to do was turn off 'Distribute IP address' on the network bit of the Airport Admin'

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