Wireless printing problems from Mac to my new Officejet 6700

I have just purchased the Officejet 6700 for my office. We have 7 mac laptops and one HP. Currently the only printer that can printer wirelessly to the 6700 is the PC. The first day I had the printer I was able to get my MacBook Air to print wirelessly, but since then it says it can't find the printer. That is the same message all the other Macs are getting.
Any advice??

Hi,
I would rather suspect Multicasting lack of support or wrong configutation within your router, this will explain that behavior as Apple computers, unlike Windows, dicsover the device using Bonjour which relies on Multicasting.
Please let me know your router brand and model in order to better understand the model.
Additionally did you used a different multifunction device over the network prior the 6700?
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