Word 2007 and Vista Strange Printing Problem

Hi All,
I've come accross a strange printing problem I cannot sort out, can anyone
off some advice or anyone else come accross it?
This is my set up.
Epson 245 printer connected via USB to Maxtor Shared Storage plus drive
connected to Belkin wireless router.
When printing from word 2007 by quick print or normal the document prints
but then word keeps comming up with trying to connect to printer and echape
to cancel. You cannot do anything else within word apart from escape and
then word hangs and you have to restart. The document prints out fine but
this fault is a pain.
Now all other programs print out fine ie from outlook, excell but not word.
I've tried turning of background printing etc but makes no difference.
The printer driver is a Vista driver.
Anyone any ideas please!
Regards,
Len