Q: Airport Time Capsule stopped printing over USB
My Airport Time Capsule recently stopped recognising the USB attached printer. It had been happily connected and printing for more than a year.
When printing, the print queue would open before saying "the printer is not connected". I tried reinstalling the printer in System Preferences but it does not appear in the "Add" list of printers.
So far...
I've updated the firmware for the printer, and did a hard reset of the Airport Time Capsule.
I've connected the printer directly to the computer and it works fine.
I've plugged a USB hard drive to the port on the Airport Time Capsule and it worked fine too.
I've power cycled everything.
When I plug the printer into the USB the printer does not appear on the network.
Airport Time Capsule 802.11ac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Brother HL-1110 Printer
Posted on Apr 21, 2016 8:38 PM