Wireless printer not discovered on network

I have been struggling with printing on my new HomeHub 4A. My HP4620 all-in-one wireless printer is connecting by wi-fi. The web server can be accessed by both a wired desktop and a wireless laptop, but neither device can print. I searched the forum for similar issues, but solutions such as fixing the IP address made no difference.
I never had any trouble with my last router (on O2/Sky). Indeed, when I got it out of the box and re-connected the devices, I was able to print straight away, so it seems reasonable to point the finger at the HH.
I monitored traffic between PC and printer using Wireshark. It was obvious that some of it was missing from the HH connection - including the UDP packets for Web Services Discovery. The only traffic I saw between PC and printer when I started to print was SNMP request/responses, continuously repeated until the print job was cancelled. With the O2 router, only one request/response exchange was seen, followed by the printing traffic.
I've seen other routers suppress discovery-type packets from wi-fi and wonder if this is what I'm seeing here. If so, is there any way to turn it on? Alternatively, is there another way for my printer to announce itself to Windows devices?

Thanks very much for all the suggestions. There is good news and bad news!
I tried most of things posted; I changed the wifi channel to 11, I unistalled the HP software on my laptop, disconnected the dsl cable to the router and then reinstalled the HP software (with my Mcafee firewall disabled) and SUCCESS, the printer worked wirelessly!!
So then I did it all again on my PC and it also worked.
I tried restarting my laptop and printer still worked wirelessly
I tried turning off the printer and put it back on and again it still worked.
That's the good news.
Printer, laptop and PC all switched over night, turned them on again today and surprise surprise I can't print wirelessly.
The printer wireless test report says that it is connected to the router. When I log onto the router (Thompson Gateway) it can see the printer but shows it as being inactive. Is this a printer fault? A router fault? I'v not bothered disabling the router firewall today as I can't see this making any difference but I'm running out of ideas
Any other suggestions from anyone??!!

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