Time Machine Printing

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Time Machine Printing

I have a MacBook I bought in October 2008 along with a Canon MX310 Printer. I set them both up with my time machine and everything worked great for a couple of months. I started having problems printing and talked to apple support. We deleted the printer in system preferences - turned off the time machine and set up the printer again in system preferences. Everything worked fine but now I can't print and the printer is not being detected. I re-installed the Canon printer driver and repeated the steps above several times but still don't see the printer on the network. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Feb 26, 2009 3:13 AM

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Answer 1

mbti88

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Feb 26, 2009 5:36 AM in response to BTEGR

sometimes i have to just turn my time capsule off and when it comes back on, it works. i'm sure you've tried this already though. good luck!

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Mar 25, 2009 11:23 AM in response to BTEGR

I have exactly the same problem - printer worked fine now it wont find it if plugged into my time machine - works from laptop directly so what is going one? Is my time machine failing?

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Answer 3

Apr 27, 2009 10:45 PM in response to BTEGR

Hello,

By "time machine", I assume you mean Time Capsule (which Time Machine program can use 😉 )

I also had difficulty printing to my Canon MX310 printer via Time Capsule this evening. When adding the printer in the System Preferences/Printers panel, (2) printers on Bonjour were displayed:

canon mx310 series fax
canon mx310 series fax - 1

If you see a listing similar to what's above, try selecting the second choice, then you will be able to select "Canon IJ" printer driver.. and it should all work. I hope this helped.

Jeff

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