HP Laser Jet P1006

The same happens to me almost daily. I have to reinstall drivers as a fix in times of need.

I have the same printer and am experiencing a similar issue, have you found anything that resolves this?

i have sometimes this issue, and in my case every time it stops working, i enter AirPort Utility and in Printers point in the checkbox, then reload Airport Express and now it works.

This fix to restart the airport express was working for me before, if it stopped printing or communicating with the printer I could just reset it and then I would be able to print for a few more days or weeks with out issue, now I can only print one job!
I am thinking the issue is related to the printer program some how because after the first job actually prints it still remains in the printer list and does not fully complete, this prevents the next job from moving up in the list and printing.
Anyone else seeing this?

I'm getting the same problem with my P1006 and AEBS. I can get a page to print, then it does not. I can turn off the printer and turn it on and get one more page to print, but sometimes this does not work. Very frustrating.

HP's specifications for the LaserJet P1006 indicate it's a "host-based" printer. Such printers have no internal CPU or software and require a directly connected host computer to provide low-level commands for their control. They will not work with the Extreme or Express's USB port.

Resources to determine if your HP printer will work with Extreme or Express

I've just picked up a cheap HP Laserjet P1005 and it would appear to be identical in most respects to the P1006. I'm running Tiger (10.4.11) on my white Macbook.

It printed first time when connected to my Airport Express base station via USB and installed the latest (1.0.6) driver for OS X from the HP site, and did a few more test prints happily - both from OS X and an XP client once I'd installed Bonjour on it. Then - nothing. The printing system would accept the job, start 'Looking for Printer'.. and stall.

I Googled around, found out about this host-based printing system, had horrible flashbacks to the days of PCI Winmodems and getting them to work under Linux. Urgh. Various add/delete printer cycles, reinstalling the drivers on my Mac and rebooting both the printer and my AEBS did nothing.

I then discovered the Open Printing stuff linked to the thread John links to above. Installed GhostScript and the other packages, and attempted to use a few of the closest possible drivers to install the printer and print. Nothing - the print jobs were accepted but just disappeared into the ether.

I connected the printer directly to my Macbook via USB - it was recognised immediately (no surprise there, as I'd already installed the driver) and I printed a few test pages to verify the printer itself hadn't suddenly killed itself. No problems there.

As a last resort - I reconnected the printer to the Airport Express and installed it once more. Lo and behold, it now prints wirelessly fine. I've sent documents to it from Safari, Preview, Textedit, Word, Excel, of various sizes and content, and so far (touching a lot of wood here) they have all printed fine. I'm hoping it stays that way!

Surely if the host-based printing method wasn't supported at all using the AE, it would never work - but it clearly has for me, at least intermittently, indicating this is some other kind of low-level AEBS compatibility or HP driver issue. Annoying!