Sam Handwich

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

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