Airport won't allow printing

Suddenly my Airport won't let me print with either computer (one on OSX8, one on OSX9). can print with USB conected, but not via Airport. All worked fine, but something changed.
Other functions are working.
Printer is HP 1606 dn.
Where to begin?

I would begin by taking a look at the following Apple Support article for troubleshooting a USB printer connected to an AirPort base station.

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Unfortunately, not all USB printers are compatible with AirPort base stations. In addition, the AirPort's USB port does not support the "advanced" printer functions, like scanning, copying or faxing, of multi-function printers.
To see if your printer is compatible, take a look at this iFelix Unofficial AirPort Printer Compatibility link. If your printer isn't listed, it doesn't necessarily mean it won't work, but simply that it has not been verified. iFelix also provides the following workaround for printers not on the list that would certainly be worth a try.
Also you can try this Apple Tech Support article to see if it will help: Printer troubleshooting for AirPort Base Stations and Time Capsule
Finally, check out this IBM support article to see if your printer is listed as having a Postscript or PCL3 interface. If it does, then it will most likely work with the AirPort's USB port. Printers that use the "HP LIDIL" interface must be connected to a computer directly and will not work.

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I thought about posting this in PRINTER forum but the printer works connected directly to the laptop, so I assume it's the airport settings.
I'm visiting my parents from across the country and I hope I didn't make a grave mistake by talking them into buying Leopard. Now they can't print into the other room.
We both have Macbook laptops, both with Leopard just installed. One was erased & installed and the other upgraded. Both won't print to to HP Deskjet 5600 series All-in-one printer via Airport base station. We we're able to do before.
In TIGER, I remember having a problem setting this up until turning on the "distributing address" in the airport utility. But with the new Airport Utility application, it's completely different. I don't understand anything about the DHCP, etc.
From my upgraded laptop, it's able to 'see' when adding new printer. When trying to print something, it sends it to Que:
"/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/MacOS/PrintJobMgr failed"
From the '_erased and installed_' laptop, it won't see it.
In my Airport utility--> PRINTER tab--> USB PRINTERS: (blank)
Under it has the name of the correct printer.
Does that mean it sees it?
Please help.

I was having serious problems with my HP Photosmart 7600 series printer using the built in drivers in OS X 10.5. Printing would be sporadic and would take several minutes to start and then might stop printing part-way through the print job. A lot of the time, it never started printing at all.
After checking the iFelix list of Airport Extreme compatible printers, I noticed that the recommended driver was 2.7. After a little google-fu, it looked like the correct driver was the hpijs 2.7.1 driver that I also use with my Linux installs. After downloading the driver and some supporting packages and re-adding my printer (specifying the hpijs driver), the first print job started printing immediately!
Curious why Apple would have a driver that isn't compatible with the APE used as the default driver when there is an open-source driver that they recommend as an APE compatible driver available...

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I just spent five days trying to get printing working in my OSX 10.9.2 (iMac). Here's the thing: the printing network is a Windows smb network. Everything works fine on my MacBook OSX 10.9.2. I can manually install the smb://xxxx/yy printer and it works just fine there. So what's wrong with my iMac? I have no idea, but this is what happened. First I tried installing through Printers & Scanners / Advanced. And it worked fine on OSX 10.9. I used guest/guest credentials for the Windows network printer when asked.
But after upgrading to 10.9.2 it stopped working. The queue window says Ready to print and refresh or Resume does nothing. In the error log it says "ERROR: error in CUPS Filter - : Broken pipe". And also there are possibly problems with authentication.
Then I tried installing the printer through the CUPS web interface. Had weird problems with it, as it's very hard to control users and authentication. At one point I thought I had cracked it, I was able to print with my Windows network credentials. But the next print did not work anymore. I had to uninstall the printer and install again to get just one print. After trying to set users right with different sudo commands I am now at point where I can't even get one print through.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Select
/var/log ▹ cups ▹ error_log
from the hierarchical list on the left side of the Console window. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar. Then select the messages from the time of the last failed printing attempt. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

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Apple folks would be monitoring this and perhaps tell me a better way or pass the info on.
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LR also won't allow me to increase the cell size. It seems to have a maximum of 8x10.68.
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Just hooked up airport extreme. works on mac but won't allow phone or iPad on. how do i get them to connect?

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You won't know for sure until you try, but you can get some indication by trying the following "test".
Plug the Dell device into the USB port on the AirPort Extreme and make sure it is powered up.
Open System Preferences (gear icon) on the dock and then open Print & Fax. Click the + (plus) button at the bottom of the printer list box.
Does your printer name show up in the next box? If so, click on the printer name to highlight it, then click the Add button at the lower right to install the printer at that location.
Keep in mind that if your device is compatible, only the print function will work when your all-in-one is connected to the AirPort. Scan, copy, maintenance and other functions are not supported when the device is connected to the AirPort, so if you need these services, you'll have to connect the all-in-one directly to your computer when you need them.

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Any ideas?
Wireless Interference
Might be caused by a cordless phone in the vicinity. To give you an example, my neighbor.....across the street...used to be able to literally crash my wireless network if he was in his front yard talking on his cordless phone.
I discovered this by accident one day after spending weeks trying figure out why my network would crash at random times.
Other possibilities include a wireless security/camera system near you
Still other things might be an amateur ham radio operator....which should not interfere....but again from experience, I know that this can occur.
Yet another possibility is another wireless network near you that is being turned on and off at random times. Some users power up their modem/router only when they want to do so and leave it off otherwise.
Some general rules to help avoid interference:
Move any cordless phones that you might have as far away as possible from the Time Capsule and/or your computer(s)
Avoid placing other electronic devices....computer, television, amplifier, satellite receiver, etc. near the Time Capsule and/or your computer(s)
Avoid metal surfaces near the Time Capsule and/or your computers
Elevate the Time Capsule as much as possible. Think of it as a water sprinkler....you want to get the room as wet as possible
Experiment with different wireless channels on the Time Capsule. To do this:
Open AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule
Click Edit
Click the Wireless tab
Click Wireless Options
Start with Channel 11 on the 2.4 GHz band and work your way down
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I`ve got a 2TB time capsule that worked fine.
I moved to this condo where the is already a wired internet service available to each apartment. The access is made through a login and password whenever You open you browser, if connected directly on the WAN cable. No multiple logs are allowed.
When I used my Time Capsule to create a wi-fi network and serve as a router I could access the internet on my MacBook over the wi-fi just created. No problem at all. But whenever I try to log other devices (iphone, apple tv) it asks for my ap login and password, and of course it states that there`s already an active connection to that user and won`t grant me access.
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Tried DHCP & NAT but had the double NAT issue.
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But it is important the double NAT is setup right.. ie you must use different ranges.. please tell us the IP you get from a directly connected computer..
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