OKI 710DN Laser Printer Filter Failure on Mac OS Catalina

In my case bonjour did not work neither which I find strange. I though the bonjour way would be some kind of generic printer driver similar to the generic postscript driver. It could be that it only fails when the native OKI driver is installed as well, but this is just an assumption. In any case, the bonjour driver im 10.14 did not give me access to the different trays and I could not use the toner saver options why I installed the native driver.

You must add a new printer. When it detects your OKI it normally suggests using the Bonjour driver. But this is a drop down where you can select all compatible drivers. Select the generic PS driver from that menu. Once you set up a printer you can not change the driver, however you can have the same printer in two configurations without any problems, just give it a name e.g. "oki workaround" or something ;-)

Snap! Just installed OS Catolina 10.14 to allow the updated "reminders" function to sync across my devices as I now get the

"filter failed" message

I've tried reinstalling the printer driver compatible with Mojave 10.14 but still the same message. I've emailed OKI support but no response so far...

Any suggestions on how I can print?

If you have another device that you haven't updated yet, you can possibly use Bonjour to print through the pre-Catalina device (I am successfully doing exactly that). Otherwise I think you'll either have to revert your entire system to Mojave or wait until Nov/December for OKI to update the drivers. It's not the printer driver itself - it is fine - it's one of the files that the driver accesses.You 'should' have been getting messages for the past year that the OKIPSPlugin filter would not be compatible with the new OS. I got this about every two months for the previous year.

Thanks for your response all be it disappointing. I did not receive any error messages and my i-pad automatically updated to Catalina, otherwise I would have left it on the current operating system. I would have to revert the update for 3 devices so not sure I have the time to do that right now. Roll on December... How frustrating!

Update - I was able to print from Catalina on my MBP via my iMac Pro on Mojave through bonjour with full functionality. When I tried printing direct I got the filter failure message the OP got.

Thank you for your help. I tried, I was able to install the printer using the Linux driver but it still doesn't work: it keeps displaying the same error (filter) after the print is sent.