Printing Wirelessly with or without Time Capsule

Hi,
I will soon be a new user of Time Capsule, and was wondering about wireless printing. Is there a device (preferably Time Capsule) that will allow me to print wirelessly throughout my house?
I have a HP Office Jet 7310 All-in-One printer. Are there only certain printers that can print wirelessly?
~Christoph

The base station you would be using is wireless.
This base station receives the signal and transmits to the USB port and the printer.
1. Time Capsule
2. Airport Extreme Base Station
3. Airport Express Base Station
All 3 of the above are designed to have USB printers attached.
The printer does NOT need to be wireless.
Here is an document on Time Capsule. Look at the interfaces....
http://support.apple.com/specs/airport/Time_Capsule.html
The other base stations have basically the same interface.
Here is the doc for the Airport Express:
http://support.apple.com/specs/airport/AirPortExpress_BaseStation.html
Look again at the interfaces.

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Yup, here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-76971-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&...
Say thanks by clicking "Kudos" "thumbs up" in the post that helped you.
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If so, then did you try a power cycle on the circuit?
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