Airport Express Printer Setup

After a visit to the Apple Store, it turns out that the reason the new HP PhotoSmart 3180 did not work with Airport Express out of the box is due to HP driver. At the genius bar the guy did not use the manufacture's installation disk but instead used the GIMP driver that comes with OSX and the wireless printing worked in minutes. The genius bar closes at 6pm on Sunday, I walked in at 5:48pm and walked out of the store at 5:59pm.

Now that it works fine with OSX and XP, I start to think maybe it works with Linux as well. Tried it in Fedora Core 4:

Select "Networked JetDirect" printer queue type when adding new computer using the printer utility in Fedora Core 4. When promted to fill in the printer and port, I use the IP of the printer (10.0.1.8) for "printer" field and leave the port as default (9100). There is no HP PhotoSmart 3100 series in the driver list provided by Fedora Core 4, I tried PhotoSmart p1100 which is close to the GIMP driver used by the genius at Apple store. The printer did print, but the page is distorted. So I went back to the HP driver list and selected PhotoSmart 2600 which is the closest to 3180 in the list. This time it works fine (so far).