Printing with snow leopard

Since updating to snow leopard my printing options disappeared. When I plug my HP Deskjet 4200 into the laptop it finds it and prints. But when I try and print via the time machine it can not find the printer, or give an error message saying the host is busy??? Any help??

I think my problem may be with the time capsule itself. If I kill the power to it and restart it I am able to find the printer, but still can't print as it says the network is busy (if I now remove the printer and try to re-add it I can no longer find it). Also, when I go into airport utility it finds my time capsule but gives an error"Make sure your Apple wireless device is plugged in and in range of your computer or connected via Ethernet and try again. (-19)" when I first turned it back on I was able to get into the configure portion of the utility, five minutes later I get the error message. In addition when I am on line via the TC I have to use firefox, safari does not work, nor does my software update, they only work if I plug the ethernet directly into my laptop.

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