How do I print from time capsule

I plugged my printer into the usb port on my time capsule... now what?

Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock)
Open Print and Fax
Click the + (plus button at the bottom of the printer list)
Does the name of your printer appear in the next box?
If yes....click the printer name to highlight it and then click Add at the lower right of the window
Try to print. Be sure to select the "correct" printer since you likely have it installed twice in two locations at this point...at your computer...and at the Time Capsule. You must choose the correct location in the print dialog window.
Note....if you have an All-in-One type of device, only the print function is supported at the Time Capsule location. If you need to copy, scan, fax, or perform maintenance checks, you will need to connect the device directly to your computer and restart the device.
If no.....your printer software has not been installed. Contact the printer manufacturer to download the latest printer drivers for your device. If still no luck.....not all printers are compatible, so that may be the case here.

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How CAN I PRINT FROM TIME CAPSULE?

I've set up Time Capsule through Airport utility and Time Machine but had some problems doing so. Consequently, it was set up with print cable still hooked to iMac. Now that Time Capsule is functioning as a backup for my files, I've tried to print from Time Capsule to my HP PSC 1610 printer. I've transfered my print cable from iMac to Time Capsule and tried to make any changes necessary to print from it. But it doesn't work. What am I possibly doing wrong? I've tried following page 28 of Time Capsule setup guide (If your printer isn't responding) but that has not helped.
- Wayne

See my reply to your previous post with the same question.
Please do not double post questions on the community support area.
Thanks!

Unable to print from time capsule now

I am using a Time Capsule, to which I have connected a USB printer (HP Laserjet P1006). I was able to print (a lot) over that setup and now, suddenly, without any apparent change, I can no longer print.
I checked the printers & faxes in System Preferences, removed the installed printer and installed it again. No result.I connected the USB printer directly to my PC and I was able to print normally. The problem seems to be in the connection with the Time Capsule.
I'm using a windows PC that runs Vista if that helps.
Thanks for any help.

Hmmm... I would have hoped that restarting the bonjour service would have got it going again.
Something has messed with it.. and often an automatic windows update is the cause of these things.. something must have shut off the bonjour service.. again I think it must be a windows update.
How long ago did this happen?? If it is just a few days or a week.. try doing a system restore back to when it used to work.
This is not much use if the drivers were upgraded and have issues with bonjour but it is worth a try.
Make sure the network did not suddenly decide to move from home to work or public in the vista computer.. take off the firewalls and ensure your network location is home.. vista can autonomously decide it is now connected to public network and cut off all local connections.. that is because it is vista.. shudder.
Are you connecting by wireless, PC to the TC??
Can I get you to use ethernet and turn the wireless off. I am not sure how much network shuffling this will require but it is always a worthwhile test.
If we can narrow the problem to update drivers or security or some other function it would make life easier.. but I have to say in the end.. vista.. shudder.. caused me to move to Macs.. I cannot offer too much more help.. other than to say.. as a computer technician in past life.. vista had one good effect.. I bailed out and moved to Mac. For whatever problems I complain about here.. and I do.. because I think Apple is going the MS route with new OS every 18months.. it still has to be better than windows.. and vista is the pits.
If you are wedded to vista.. shudder..
There are a few other ways to skin the proverbial cat.. the easiest being buying a cheap ethernet to USB print server on ebay. Printers are now available readily with network built in.. for but a few dollars more than USB models.. so people virtually throw away their old usb print servers. These are inevitably superior from vista point of view as no apple protocols are needed. And of course the better solution is simply replace the printer with a network model.. that is cheaper than a Mac I guess.. although leaving you in the clutches of vista seems hardly the actions of a friendly advisor.
Last.. the stability of the gen6 TC is not all that marvellous.. you can do a factory reset on that and redo the setup.
Use all very short names.. no spaces and pure alphanumerics.
The setup of the TC should not be done from v5 utility of course .. it should be done from Mac or iOS device.

HT201250 How to restore laptop from time capsule after replacing hard drive

How do I reload all my programs and files from a time capsule after changing hard drive? Also Apple store reloaded with Snow Leopard and not Lion. Will that be a problem? Thank you

Plug the external drive into a computer by usb or whatever box you have available..
When you say blank, is it correctly formatted.. we recommend HFS+ which is Mac OS Extended (jorrnaled)
Make sure you use GUID type disk setup not MBR if it came from PC world.
Copy the files via finder from TC to the external drive.

Anyone else had success with Kodak 5100 printing from Time Capsule?

So I recently bought a Time Capsule and until now have been happily printing from USB port on PC and now on Mac.
We were going to buy a wireless printer but found out that the Time Capsule supports that capability by connecting a printer to the USB on the Time Capsule.
So, set it all up, connected my Kodak 5100 and it appears to see it and lists the printer in the print utility on my Mac as location "Time Capsule".
Printer is on, paper in, ink levels ok.... print a test page and my Mac thinks it's printing but the Kodak 5100 Easyshare (!!) is doing nothing!
Having searched the blogs for a while, and mindful that the Kodak 5100 is a couple of years old now, I eventually found a solution that appears to work!!
You can download an older software for the 5100 here http://www.userdrivers.com/Printer/Kodak-All-in-One-Printer-Software-3-5-for-Mac -OS-X/download/
I have to thank someone else for suggesting this back in 2009 on another post on this forum but I can't find the post so thank you whomever it is, this still works! When you set up the driver, you need to select that you are connecting to the printer through another Mac - I think the only other option I had was to select USB connection. Once you are in, you'll notice that the software is not as user friendly as the latest versions but if you can print wirelessly from your Mac, then I'd like to think you won't care about the UI of the printer software!
I've only just done this and tested with a colour excel from MS Excel for Mac so will let you know if anything else doesn't work!

I've tried using an ethernet connection. It does work faster and I seem to get more files over, but it STILL eventually hangs. I've given up with Time Capsule and now backup to a Lacie 1Tb disk. It would nice to know what is going wrong you Apple guys!

LOST BOOKMARKS - How can I restore from Time Capsule b/u

I programmed an iPhone and it kept merging my bookmarks on the phone so I deleted them and thin I found it took then out of my Macbook Pro laptop also. I had an extensive list of all organized book marks I didnt really want to give up.
I have a time capsule and it is working. When I went to restore them it told me that safari can not be modified because it is required, So I must be doing something wrong.
Actually I have never restored anything from the backups since I have had the thing running. So I am not familar with the perations of the device.
PLEASE, HELP ! ! ! ! !
Need steps on how to bring back bookmarks to safari.
Thanks

Triple-click the text on the line below to the clipboard, then copy it to the Clipboard (command-C):
~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
Quit Safari. Disable Safari synchronization in iCloud, if applicable.
Select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the Finder menu bar. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A folder window should open with a file named "Bookmarks.plist" selected. Restore the file from a backup that predates the unwanted changes. If you disabled sync, re-enable it and test.

How to restore data from time capsul

How can you restore your data from Apple Time Capsule?
Would it be an idea to share your back up with others? And can it be done?

Read Q14-17 here.
Q18 covers copying backups to other locations.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
If you want a secondary backup use another tool. A direct disk image from superduper is free to do.. and works much better to do a restore of the computer.

Cannot print from Time Capsule

I've had Time Capsule running for 4 years with no problems whatsover. Yesterday, for some reason, TC stopped working. I had to reset it. Everything is back up and running on my network, except for one weird problem with my printer. I have an Epson Stylus Photo RX580 printer plugged into the USB port on the Time Capsule. Never had a problem with this printer since day one with TC. Yesterday, when I reset TC and readded my printer driver to Print and Fax, it will not print using the driver I used before I reset the Time Capsule. It will print using Gutenprint drivers (which I prefer not to use). I want to use the Epson SP RX580 Series driver, but nothing happens when I send prints using that driver. I see the printer icon in my dock, but when I open the icon there is no print queue. I've deleted and added printer to no avail.
Can anyone help me figure this out? I went on Epson website and downloaded the latest drivers for my printer, but still cannot print using RX580 drivers -- only Gutenprint.

4years is end of economic life of the Gen 1 TC.. it could actually have failed.
A few things to do.. reset to factory.. go back to 7.5.2 firmware in the TC.
If that fails then I would say the TC has become faulty.. it is simply time for a new one.

How to stream films from Time Capsule via AppleTV/Mede8er on Smart TV

How can I play movies from my TimeCapsule on my Samsung Smart TV with my Apple TV2?
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My configuration consistes of: Windows 7 laptop+PC - TimeCapsule - Apple TV - Mede8er. All in a LAN network.
I can see the apple TV on my TV screen but can't get into the TC with my films on it.

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How can I play movies from my TimeCapsule on my Samsung Smart TV with my Apple TV2?
You cannot if the Samsung needs DLNA server.. which is what I would expect.. Apple stuff does not support DLNA.. because it is Apple.. and therefore different.
How can I play movies from my TimeCapsule on my Samsung Smart TV with my Mede8er400
I can see the apple TV on my TV screen but can't get into the TC with my films on it.
Apple TV is not a player.. it is kind of an intermediary device.. it requires itunes running on a computer to send or stream stuff to it.. if you had your itunes library on the TC.. the computer can then stream it to the ATV and thus onto your TV..
TC is a dumb as a board storage device.. no media players.. no players of any kind media or otherwise.. just dumb storage space.
Your Mede8er 400 might be able to play files.. what formats does it play??
Have you copied files to the TC that it can read?
Have you setup the TC with full smb compliant names.. ie short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.
Have you setup the workgroup name as WORKGROUP and turned on the guest account to full read and write.. it might work.
Your ATV should be able to work from itunes on the windows computer and stream that to the TV.

How do I restore iPhoto library from time capsule?

My iPhoto library has blank events whre there have been photos, how can I restore from time capsule from a date and time I know all was well?

Here's a screenshot of what Larry is describing:
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How do I setup my Time Capsule (3rd Generation) to be accessed from the internet while I'm traveling?

How do I setup my Time Capsule (3rd Generation) to be accessed from the internet while I'm traveling? It is installed on my home network behind my TWC broadband router.

Ok.. since the TWC modem is also a router.. all configuration takes place on this box.. NONE whatsoever takes place on the TC.
There is no airport utility 7.7.3 but there is a firmware of that number for the latest AC model TC..
Is it tall like this.
Then it is Gen5.
otherwise it will have a firmware.. 7.6.4 or earlier and the airport utility must be 6.3 or earlier.
Open the Airport utility and give us a screenshot of the summary page.
That will also help us determine that you have the TC, which version and how it is setup.
You might want to press the edit and also give us the Internet and Network tab as they should be set correctly as well.
I have created a DDNS through DYN.com although I am not sure how to implement this into the TC.
You do not do anything in the TC.. set it up in the Ubee router.
Port forward 548 to the TC in the Ubee router.
And make sure the TC has a static IP in the Ubee router.
Overall if you find this too hard I strongly recommend you buy a product designed for remote access .. eg WD MyCloud.. they are cheap and easy peasy to setup for remote access.. by PC or Mac and since it is built outside of Apple you not bound up in Apple limitations built into all their equipment to prevent you using it the way you want.. rather than apple want you too.. eg BTMM and iCloud being the only way apple provide for access to the TC and only when it is the main router of the network.
You are fighting hard because Apple made this hard.. not easy.

How can I copy programs (iWorks) and files from Time Capsule to my HD manually? The problem is that the migration assistant does not recognize my backup file and the user on the TC. (If I open the TC on finder, it it there though)

How can I copy programs (iWorks) and files from Time Capsule to my HD manually? The problem is that the migration assistant does not recognize my backup file and the user on the TC. (If I open the TC on finder, it it there though)

How can I copy programs (iWorks) and files from Time Capsule to my HD manually? The problem is that the migration assistant does not recognize my backup file and the user on the TC. (If I open the TC on finder, it it there though)

How can I restore my iPhone from time capsule (OSX and ios5)?

How can I restore my iphone (ios5) from time capsule (OSX).

So much got deleted... how can I get it backk????

How do I connect to Time Capsule from a Windows 8.1 machine which is on a Windows domain. I have been able to connect from a Windows 7 machine on a Windows domain to a Time Capsule. Airport utility is not displaying the Time Capsule Win8.1 machine

How do I connect to Time Capsule from a Windows 8.1 machine which is on a Windows domain. I have been able to connect from a Windows 7 machine on a Windows domain to a Time Capsule. Airport utility is not displaying the Time Capsule Win8.1 machine.
I have checked that the firmware has been updated to 7.6.4 . Similalrly the Win8.1 machine has been loaded with the update specified in another discussion.

Firstly how are you connecting to the TC.. wireless or ethernet?
Please open a command window and ping it.. ping by name and by IP address.
If ping succeeds at least by IP it should work.
In windows explorer type
\\10.0.1.1 (or whatever the TC ip is.. that is the default).
Having the airport utility for windows loaded can help the process. As it loads bonjour for windows.
7.6.4 firmware on the TC is useless. It works better on 7.6.1
If the ping does not succeed by either name or IP address yet you have internet through the TC, then your network is setup wrongly. You are have firewalls blocking local IP. Take down all the firewalls.

How do i recover files from time capsule

A couple of days ago my macbook pro (mid 2009, 2.53 GHz intel core 2 duo running Mountain Lion) started getting slow almost to a crawl, and the hdd name was changed automatically from Macintosh HD to a really long and weird name, something like ////////kjiosdjfk43///////////////////////////////, the name of a folder that I had on the desktop was also changed to a weird name like that. I changed the name back to Macintosh HD and after that it would take forever to boot and then wouldnt boot at all. I tried to reinstall OSX from the osx utilites menu after pressing command + R while booting but after downloading the file it would get stuck at " about 0 seconds remaining" i tried to format the drive but it still wouldnt install OSX. I bought a new HDD and installed everything from scratch, Leopard, Snow Leopard and finally Mountain Lion. Since the original HDD name was changed i suspected a virus, I haven't used time machine since installing Mountain Lion, I need to know how to check if it was a virus or just the HDD failing. Right now I'm running a scan on the time capsule disk with avast free for mac ( is Avast any good on Mac's?). It's my understanding that my time capsule disk assumes its connected to a new mac, I would like to transfer all my files (music, movies, but most importantly the photos i had on iPhoto) instead of doing a full restore from time capsule (I'd like to do this because i had a lot of applications I no longer use and the mac was getting slow from a while back), if I decide to do this, how do i do it, and, after copying the files do i need to erase the time capsule disk and set it up as a new one for the "new" mac or can I save the old backups and start backing up new ones from this point on ( I'd like to do this in case i forget to transfer any files I still have them on time capsule)

Time Machine will delete its hourly backups when it is running low on space. The daily Backups remains.
Then it will delete the daily backups when it is running low on space. The weekly backups remains.
Then it will delete the weekly backups when it is running low on space. The monthly backups remain.
Then it will delete the odlest backups when it is running low on space.
But because of the convoluted way its internal pointer system works, it will never delete the only backup copy of a current file -- there will still be a copy on the Backup as long as there is still an original file in place on your drive.
So I think your assertion that it deletes your stuff without asking you is an exaggeration. It is not nearly so dire as you are saying.

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