Printer connection after time capsule install

After installation of Time Capsule, none of the wireless printers on the network are recognized. Can they be setup or reconnected on my computer (iMac) or is that setup on each of the printers?

You setup printers on the printer..
The usual method is to connect to the computer by its usb port.. then use the CD that came with the printer for the installation wizard and setup wireless on the printer to work in infrastructure mode with the TC.. you can also use WPS method.. WPS is very well hidden in the TC or any of the apple products.
Most printers now have WPS.. you can use pin method.
Remember most printers are SMB devices.. so keep wireless name compatible.. short, no spaces pure alphanumeric. Not apple spaces and apple apostrophe.

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Wireless Printer connection to Time Capsule

I have a Canon Pixma MP620 wireless printer that I'm trying to connect wirelessly to my Time Capsule. Is there a way to do this using the touch button method? Most access points have a button that can be pressed to receive a signal from another wireless device so they can sync but I haven't seen anything like that on my Time capsule

So you plugedd the printer into the time capsule usb right?
You need to re-add the printer in the system preferences one more time because the location has moved.

Why does my printer connected through time capsule only print once after powering on then never again?

Hey,
I have a TimeCapsule which is logging in to my wireless network (i.e. it's not extending it, neither is it serving its own network). I have a Brother HL-2030 connected to it (via USB). I have two issues:
* the printer will only print directly after plugging in the USB cable to the TC, but only once. Subsequent attempts to print would not succeed. Disconnecting and reconnecting the USB cable will help, again, only once. The printer works flawlessly when directly connected to my MBP.
* the TimeCapsule is not found by AirPort utility, and neither am I able to apply a software update to it. Configuring it to extend my WLAN does not work reliably.
Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong here?
Regards,
Matthias

Thanks for the hint. I had thought about that, too. It was the easiest to configure the network this way as the modem is provider pre-configured. But I need to see if I can get to bridged mode. There's an additional problem with the location of the device in the building...
The printer had worked through the TC when it was the router (with my previous provider) and served the WLAN. Thus I don't see where the difference should be, particularly as I believe the printer is served via IP and thus it should IMHO not matter if the TC serves the WLAN + device or only the device.

Canon printer connected on Time Capsule won't print from the PC

Hi all !!
I just bought a small printer, Canon MP250.
Connected it to my Time Capsule. Works fine on wifi with my Mac.
But with the PC (connected by ethernet).... it sees the printer, but won't print.
Bonjour installed, firewall desactivated.
Any tips/suggestion/link/idea ?
Thanks for any help !

Here's the Canon's response (sorry, in French). I'm happy that Canon answered personnaly & very quickly to my questions. That's a great support.
Lors du partage d'une imprimante en réseau, Windows utilise un port virtuel et non local, en USB l'ensemble des imprimantes sont configurer en port USB virtuel, Windows peut donc transférer les données vers un autre port virtuel.
Pour la partie scanner, le port est un port USB physique afin de gérer l'alimentation du scanner (puissance de la lampe), il vous faut donc un utilitaire qui vous permet de rediriger le flux de donnée réseau vers le port USB.

Set up printer connected to Time Capsule via USB and print without WiFi

Is there any way to do this? We use a Time Capsule for daily backups, for both Mac and PCs, and have a printer that we would like to share between all of them. Before, we had the printer connected to a PC as this allowed both PCs and Macs to print to it, but of course the PC had to be on. For whatever reason, when we plugged the printer into a Mac, the PCs couldn't connect or print.
From what Apple has told me, I have two options:
1. Share the printer via WAN, which is not desirable, as any other office could then print to our printer.
2. Create a hidden, password-protected, wireless network. This causes problems for two reasons. Firstly, we are not permitted to "extend" the network, and by creating a wireless network and attaching it onto the ethernet network, we are basically doing that. Secondly, if we did create this wireless network, computers that connected to the network to be able to see the printer would then default to the wireless network for internet access, rather than the ethernet connection.
If I am misunderstanding something, or someone has an idea of how to password protect a printer connected to a Time Capsule without using wifi, I would greatly appreciate it.

Sharing via WAN through the Time Capsule, for whatever reason, is not password protected. Any computer in our building can see the printer, and use it. When we were sharing the printer through the PC / Bonjour, when setting up the printer on a new machine, a valid username and password from the connected PC was required.
I should add that the purpose of trying to share this via the Time Capsule, rather than the PC, is that the Time Capsule is always on, and we notice an increase in performance when the PCs are powered down regularly.

Can not print from my pc using time capsule's printer, but the mac in the office will. PC sees the network just not the printer connected to the capsule.

I can't get my pc to see the printer connected to the time capsule, it sees and connect to the network but will not see the printer. The mac in the office see both the network and the printer connected to the capsule.

Suggest that you check to make sure that you installed Bonjour Print Services for Windows v2.0.2 on the PC.
Run the program and hopefully it will find your printer so you can select it and click to get things going.

Ca.t connect to Time Capsule after failed OS update

This is going to be a bit long but here goes:
I was notified of two updates to install this afternoon. I told it to update and partway through the first the system hung. It was a small update and I don't recall what it was, but the second one was a large security update. It never got to that one.
OK, I had to power the system down because it was completely locked up. Upon rebooting it came up fine until it tried to connect to Time Capsule. I typed in my PW and it gave me an incorrect user, PW or login error message. At this point I also could not connect to the internet. Safari gave me a POSIX error: no buffer space available message.
At some point here the status light on TC was flashing yellow. I reset it to the factory defaults to no avail. I still couldn't get into it. I have a clone of the drive so I booted off that and got the same results so that would seem to rule out a corrupted file.
Now for the funny part, I booted into safe mode and I not only had an internet connection, but I was also able to get into the TC setup and everything seems to work fine in safe mode. When I boot into normal mode I am right back to square one. It opens the window for TC and asks for my PW. When I enter it I get the error message about PW/user/login.
And throughout this whole process I was able to access the internet just fine on my PC-BSD machine connected to the router portion of TC. Suggestions anyone?

This mornings update: I can ping so I am getting out. When I click on the network icon in the finder sidebar it comes up empty. When I try to run Netinfo Manager the program stops responding and I have to force quit it. And when I run Airport Utility it actually finds the TC unit, bit when I click continue it comes back after a few seconds and says: An error occured while reading the configuration.
After the please make sure everything is plugged in ,essage I get: (-6753)
Anyone have any idea what is going on here? It almost looks like the Network is information is missing.

I just had Uverse installed. The iMac which was my base station is now connected via my household electric ground connection. Another computer is now the base station. I have connected my Time Capsule to my computer by USB cable, but can't set it up

I just had Uverse installed. My iMac desktop has been the base station for my wi fi, but we had to connect it via ground wire of my electrical system and use another desktop as the base station [with windows op system]. We have connected my Time Capsule to the computer via USB cable. I believe that will require setting up the Capsule to use Ethernet, but the instructiions on the install disc only talk about using Airport. How can I find instructions for setting up using USB cable and Ethernet?
Thanks!
Charles Leach

All the manuals are listed at the head of the thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/time_capsule?view=overview
The TC cannot connect to the computer by USB.. it is network device.. it only connects by ethernet or wireless.. usb is for external drive or printer.

HP Laserjet 1020 Print Wirelessly Via Time Capsule?

Is it possible to set up an HP Laserjet 1020 to print wirelessly via time capsule? I already know I have to use the 1022 driver, and my printer works perfectly when the usb is plugged into my Macbook air. I plugged it into the new time capsule I just bought and added it on my Macbook as a network printer, but it wont print. Any tips or suggestions would be extremely helpful! Thanks in advance!

Hi there,
I would recommend reviewing the article below.
OS X Mountain Lion: Set up a printer connected to a Time Capsule or AirPort base station
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10875
-Griff W.

Time capsule 2TB,connected to mac mini server leopard, LG DP1W mediacenter/player for watching movies on my tv from my harddisk tower connected to time capsule by usb/hub on G-technologie 8 TB G-SPEED Q RAID-oplossing(hard disk tower) is this gonna work??

hello,
ik have a question about the hardware i wanna buy
i have a IMAC that is 3 years old and running on leopard snow 10.5, i want to upgrade the software from this mac to 10.6 and put 4GB workmemory into it, i have now 1GB.
I have ordered a MAC MINI SERVER leopard snow 10.6(also ordered a dvd superdrive, wireless typing, and a wireless mouse for the mac mini)
i have ordered a Time Capsule 2TB
i want to connect to the Time capsule this:
G-technologie 8 TB G-SPEED Q RAID-oplossing (hdtower)
UPC of EAN nr.: 705487185744 in the mac store
i want to connect to the Time Capsule this for my TV to play movies from the harddisktower connected to my time capsule:
LG DP1W MEDIAPLAYER/CENTER without harddisk build into it, with WiFi connection butt, i'm gonna use te 2.0 USB connection that is faster and stabile.
-Connecting the Time Capsule to the Internet
i'm also gonna use this: gear4 PG467 UNITY REMOTE(control everything with iphone)
i'm also want to connect by 2.0 USB my canon all in one foto printer, WiFi is not working properly and i have many times problems with connection my printer wireless.....
And for the future i also want to connect a Dymo Labelprinter by 2.0 USB
in total 7 usb connections: only the time capsule have one port, so i can split to more ports by a usb-hub????
Well i have another question: i want to store a movie database on the external harddisktower that is connected to the time capsule.....
How can... let me say: my sister, and father who live on 2 different adresses get access to the movie database and watch them at their own home?????
can i secure it with a password given to my sister or father that is only works for 1 file???? so that i get multiple passwords
how does this works??? to share/upload/download to the internet only to one person????
i hope someone can help me????

hello,
ik have a question about the hardware i wanna buy
i have a IMAC that is 3 years old and running on leopard snow 10.5, i want to upgrade the software from this mac to 10.6 and put 4GB workmemory into it, i have now 1GB.
I have ordered a MAC MINI SERVER leopard snow 10.6(also ordered a dvd superdrive, wireless typing, and a wireless mouse for the mac mini)
i have ordered a Time Capsule 2TB
i want to connect to the Time capsule this:
G-technologie 8 TB G-SPEED Q RAID-oplossing (hdtower)
UPC of EAN nr.: 705487185744 in the mac store
i want to connect to the Time Capsule this for my TV to play movies from the harddisktower connected to my time capsule:
LG DP1W MEDIAPLAYER/CENTER without harddisk build into it, with WiFi connection butt, i'm gonna use te 2.0 USB connection that is faster and stabile.
-Connecting the Time Capsule to the Internet
i'm also gonna use this: gear4 PG467 UNITY REMOTE(control everything with iphone)
i'm also want to connect by 2.0 USB my canon all in one foto printer, WiFi is not working properly and i have many times problems with connection my printer wireless.....
And for the future i also want to connect a Dymo Labelprinter by 2.0 USB
in total 7 usb connections: only the time capsule have one port, so i can split to more ports by a usb-hub????
Well i have another question: i want to store a movie database on the external harddisktower that is connected to the time capsule.....
How can... let me say: my sister, and father who live on 2 different adresses get access to the movie database and watch them at their own home?????
can i secure it with a password given to my sister or father that is only works for 1 file???? so that i get multiple passwords
how does this works??? to share/upload/download to the internet only to one person????
i hope someone can help me????

You must have connected the Time Capsule with a router that does not work with my direct cable from my ISP

you must have connected the Time Capsule with a router that does not work with my direct cable from my ISP

I tried to answer in your other post.. please stick to one thread ..
What method of internet do you have.. is this fibre install.. if so the TC should just plug in and use dhcp in router mode.. press and hold the reset and it will go back to router mode by default.

No printer tab in time capsule

I am trying to add a printer to my Time Capsule. It is not a wifi enabled printer, so I was thinking about just connecting it to my Time Capsule via USB and using the Time Capsule as my wifi sharing.
I don't see a tab in the Time Capsule for printing. I seem to recall this existed at one time, but for some reason it is gone now.
I updated to Time capsule from 7.6 to 7.6.1, but still nothing there.
I have not found a simple solution as I was hoping on line. Can anyone assist?

I'm not suggesting that you "downgrade" at all. I am suggesting that you add the full feature version of AirPort Utility to your Mac.
Both AirPort Utility 5.6 and 6.0 were made available on the same day. You can keep both versions on your Mac and use the one that you want. You may have missed this information from Apple.
But, don't be fooled by the lower 5.6 number....5.6 does a lot more than 6.0
For reasons only known to Apple, AirPort Utility 6.0 is in fact a serious downgrade. We cannot answer for Apple on that.
Let us know if you decide to add AirPort Utility 5.6 and more functionality to your Mac. In case you were wondering, 6.0 cannot be easily be deleted....it is part of the Lion operating system.

Changed Service Provider and now I can't connect my time capsule

Must I do a soft reset on my time capsule to connect it to my new wireless network? I have an Orange Fibre Play network and even if I connect the Time Capsule using an ethernet cable, it can't see it.

Setup the TC by doing a full factory reset.
Soft reset is useless.. that doesn't change anything.
And hard reset does not get rid of the old settings.
So full factory and if it doesn't show up on wireless.. use ethernet in full isolation to the network to do the initial setup.
The Factory Reset Gen1-4.
Unplug your TC. Hold in reset. and power the TC back on.. without releasing reset for about 10sec. When the status light flashes rapidly; release it.
Be Gentle! Feel the switch click on. It has a positive feel.. add no more pressure after that.
TC will reboot after a couple of minutes with default factory settings and will wipe out previous configurations.
No files are deleted on the hard disk.. No reset of the TC deletes files.. to do that you use erase from the airport utility.
Factory reset Gen 5
Hold in reset for about 5sec until the status light flashes quickly.
If your AirPort Time Capsule still doesn’t respond, do a similar reset to the Gen1-4.
Unplug your AirPort Time Capsule .. hold in reset and power the TC back on.. without releasing the reset.. wait until status led flashes rapidly.

Printer seen from Time Capsule - print not adding to queue.

Been a while since I've been here... things have been doing well until now.
At our store in Minnesota, we've got 13 Macintoshes on display as well as a Time Capsule. All of them have been able to network to each other, as well as see our Epson CX7400 on the network. Every Mac has the appropriate driver installed, with the printer added successfully to each system.
However, when any given Mac attempts to print to the Time Capsule's Epson CX7400, which is networked via the Bonjour protocol, the print queue remains empty (as if nothing was ever sent to it), and the printer does not respond.
All I get is a quick blip on the screen showing that the document is being prepared for printing, sends it to the queue where it mysteriously disappears.
Not sure what is going on here. I've looked at as many things as I could. Might be something simple that I'm missing, I don't know.
I've reset the printing system, reinstalled drivers, checked the Bonjour and network settings on both the Time Capsule and each Macintosh to no avail.
Any ideas?

Same exact problem here! Same printer... Time Capsule... Everything. And it just started happening about the same day as the first post. Someone help!

Why can't I print wireless with Time Capsule anymore?

I have an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 that I have been printing wireless with for many years by plugging it in to the USB port on the back of the Time Capsule. Not anymore.
I have a MacBook Pro running the latest OS as well as the latest model Time Capsule running the latest software from Apple. I have tried using Airport Utility 5.6 which sees the printer plugged in. But when I try to add the printer to the Print & Scan system preferences, it shows up but says:
Software for this printer is available from Apple. Would you like to download and install it?
When I click "Download and Install" it searches for the software but then tells me:
The software for this printer is currently unavailable. Please contact the printer’s manufacturer for the latest software.
When I plug the printer directly into my MBP, I can add the printer and print without any problems. Per Epson, I have the latest software for my printer, so I'm not sure why Apple needs to search for the software and download it in order for me to print using the Time Capsule.
Like I said before, this all use to work flawlessly. I'm assuming all the updates have "broken" something.
Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.

Well, I solved my problem.
I deleted the EPSON folder in Library/Printers as well as Library/Cache and installed the EPSON driver via Softwar Update.
Everything is working fine now.

Printer connection after time capsule install

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