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Adding New Print Drivers to Airport/Time Capsule
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Rex32
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Oct 21, 2009, 06:15 PM
 
Hello All,

I just switched from a linksys WRT54G to an airport extreme/time capsule for my home network. I also just purchased an HP Photosmart C4700 (well I got it free with a buddies Mac) and I am trying to set it up through the Time Capsules USB port. The airport recongizes the printer fine, but it doesn't have the correct drivers. I have the CD that came with the printer, but that just wants to do a local installation of the HP crap software, is there a way I can just add the needed drivers to the airport without installing a bunch of other stuff?


Thanks,

Mike
     
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Oct 21, 2009, 08:21 PM
 
You don't have to install anything on the Airport (and there is no way to anyway). The printer will use whatever drivers are on the machine that you are printing from. There is no configuration necessary other than ensuring you have drivers on your local machine. If you don't like HP's driver, just use the OS X built-in driver.

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