Wireless printing fails, wired printing works

I have two Laserjet Pro M1217nfw printers.  Both are setup with a wireless connection to the network. Any computer that has a wired connection to the network can print to them.  Any laptop using a wireless connection to the network, can't.  The laptop in wireless mode can see and access all other network resources.  And if I plug in an ethernet cable from the network to the laptop, it can print.  Ideas?  Thanks....
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Not a driver issue, as far as I can tell.  You can't ping the units, nor see the setup web page when using the wireless connection to the laptop.  As soon as I plug the laptop into an ethernet connection, I can ping, see the setup page, and print to the printers. 
It's as if the network isn't allowing one wireless device to talk to another, but will allow wired to wireless.

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