[jrgrott]

I have an Epson printer and have it hooked up wirelessly to my iMac G5 and Apple Extreme Base Station. I can print wirelessly fine, but I cannot use the scanning function since I switched the printer to the wireless connection.

I could use the scanning function when I had the Epson printer hooked via USB directly to the iMac.

I sent Epson an email about this and the answer I received back was vague. They said that scanning requires two way communication and that maybe my Base Station was not set up correctly. They would not say outright that I could not scan if the printer was hooked up wirelessly.

I tried to look into the Airport Base Station configuration to see if I could change some settings that might allow for the two way communication, but I could not see anything. I am not an expert in networking by any means.

Any help or comments?

[mduell]

That's correct, AEBS only allows you to print. It doesn't support any other features of all-in-one printers (such as scanning, faxing, etc).

If you'd like to access the non-printing features over the network, you need an all-in-one with ethernet built in, like the HP PSC 2510.