Wireless Network Printing via HH2 to a Print Serve...

My HomeHub 2 runs with my with my desktop PC under Win XP Pro SP3 with an HP Photosmart
D5160 .   I decided to try and provide a simple home wireless network using a TP-Link WPS510U
wireless print server. My HH2 is Ethernet connected to the desktop and the router provides the
wireless link to the print server.
The D5160 provides bidirectional communication when installed and using a direct USB cable
connection to the desktop PC and everything works as expected.
Using the print server I just get basic printing with no feedback to the PC. In fact, using the HP Utility Solution Centre and checking Settings /Status I am told the D5160 is disconnected!!
Is it possible to make this wireless link work correctly with two-way communication?
Am I missing something in the set-up that doesn't allow the bidirectional wireless communication via router plus server, but does when the printer has its own internal wireless circuits?
If I have instead an self-contained wireless printer will this provide the full two-way communcation via the router?
Looking at Control Panel/Printers and Faxes/HP Photosmart D5160 and clicking on Ports tab I have in the list of 14 ports (LPT, COM, FILE, USB001, etc) plus
DOT4_001    HP Photosmart D5160 Printer
IP_192.168.1.10-2    Standard TCP/IP Port    HP Photosmart D5160
This last one is ticked and the Enable Bidirectional Support box is also ticked.
I can also go 'Run/cmd/DOS window' and 'ping 192.168.1.10' and get the replies from the printer.
Thanks in anticipation of any advice.
Rodney Fry
G3NDI

Wireless will not be able to provide a full bi-directional interface, as its not designed to do that. Printer status relies on a physical hardware connection over a USB or parallel port (old printers), to allow the printer to be interrogated and its status returned.
Also, if you use a printer plugged into the USB port of the HH2, you will get the same problem.
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I am reporting this as solved. I submitted this problem. The problem started when updated my laptop from Windows XP to Windows 7. When I did, The Lexmark printer on my desktop worked find with the new laptop system. The HP V40 did not work. The Desktop simply received each print job submitted from the Laptop (via a wireless local network) and discarded it. I could see the print job come into the V40 print queue and could see it disappear.
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Hello @LindaGrace,
Welcome tot he HP Support Forums!
I understand that since re-adding a password to your wireless router your HP Officejet Pro 8500A e-All-in-One Printer is not communicating wirelessly with your Mac OS X 10.9 computer. I would like to assist you today with resolving this wireless communication issue.
Now, making a change to your network, such as a adding a password or altering a password, results in having to reconfigure your printer on the wireless network. At this point your printer is being 'blocked' access to your wireless network due to the change that you made. To correct this issue you simply rerun the wireless setup for your printer to 'tell' the printer the network name and password. Once the wireless setup is run successfully everything will continue working for you as per normal.
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Once your printer is connected to your network again, please try to print. If printing still fails you may need to re-add the printer to your Mac because of the printers new network connection. Please follow the steps below to add the printer back to the Mac.
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Now that the printer is successfully configured on your network and added to the Mac please try wirelessly printing again.
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