Wireless Printer Offline ... but it isn't

New HP J6480 through Airport Extreme
Works fine when I scan something .. jpeg stores on Desktop via Airport from remote HP J6480.
When I try to print anything, The Mac printer utility tells me the HP is offline.
If I use the HP-Printer-Utility which came with it, I can print out the 'Printer Information' page easily.
All this tells me the Printer is online and available.
What other setting could I have messed up?
thanks

Not sure I understand ... I do see the hp J6480 listed and the "current"
HPOfficejet_J6400series
localhost
Driver: 2.2.1
usb://HP/Officejet%20J6400%20series?serial=blahblahblah
And the Hp Utility that came with it can print out Network-Config Settings ... pages, over the network, just fine.
but, as I said, maybe I don't understand the question
HP support tells me they don't support Mac systems and told me to call Apple.

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