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Which USB printers work with Apple Airport Extreme Base Station?

I have a Apple Airport Extreme base station but I've had anything but luck with compatible printers and drivers. I was hoping if someone would know a fairly inexpensive printer such as HP or Lexmark laser preferably but ink will do in a price range of <$150 (maybe $200?) that will broadcast over Bonjour, have compatible drivers, and natively work with minimal effort. I have a Lexmark 7170 but it's not compatible. I could hack it or use a compatible Linux driver but my past luck doing it has been small, tedious, and very unreliable unless someone knows the perfect trick. I appreciate anyones help!

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1. I have the same setup with pc's and one mac book pro. Im using an HP deskjet995ck and it works good.
2. Sorry you're having problems with the Airport printing option. It's such a handy feature! Dell printers will not work at all and as you've probably found only a few Lexmark printers do. HP has a list of compatible printers; URL is below. If you don't mind an alternative suggestion, perhaps a Canon inkjet printer? We have three different Canon printers at home (long story) and despite one of them being almost 5 years old, they all work with our Airport. The MP470 (which we have) can be found for $99 or less and I've read good things about the budget MP210, which is now $69. With the PG40 black ink cartridge ($19.95), I get about 200-220 PDF pages printed. Please note that you cannot use any printer utility (ink level, cleaning, alignment, programmed silent mode) through the Airport, it has to be connected via cable. I would also suggest renaming the Bonjour printer so it's not confusing when you plug in a wired one. For example, "Airport iP90" instead of "Canon iP90." [I have nothing against laser printers but having worked in electronic sales until last summer, I found that any sub-$299 models curl 20# paper too much.]