Printing went well on Catalina. Now printing stopped and showed message 'Filter failed'. Using printer Lexmark C543 and removed and entered the printer once. Same problem. Printer supply is visible in browser. Seems to be OS problem.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Here is what I did. I downloaded the color driver package from Download Color driver package . The mono package is at Download Mono driver package . I deleted my old printer and reset the printing system first. Then I used the Find Any File utility to find all the files with Lexmark in it and trashed all of them and emptied the trash. Some require an admin password to delete. For good measure I rebooted then. At that point I ran the installer that I had downloaded. Then I added the printer. In my case bonjour printer showed up and I selected that and for driver I selected under Use: the Lexmark universal driver. Voila! It printed. All printer options are there.
I don't know who can mark this original question as solved but this is the solution and not selecting generic Postscript printer.
while on the topic is recommended easyFind in the App Store
Do you know how to fix it?
See my post on page 7 PROBLEM SOLVED
Thank you. I was able to print again.
Unfortunately, this did NOT fix the problem. Is it possible to remove the "Solved" tag on this post?
See my post on page 7 PROBLEM SOLVED
After downloading Big Sur 11.2, both of my HP printers no longer print. The print job gets stuck saying the printer is not available, when the printer is on and nothing else it in the queue.
Sigh. If you read the previous posts you would find the solution. Look on page 7.
Francesca, the generic postscript is not a good solution. It will not use any of the features of the printer. See my solution on page 7 of this thread to see the real solution.
SIGH - Still doesn’t fix the problem of being able to select the options that my printer has - still can’t do two-sided printing
CherylBurckhard, did you follow my solution on page 7 of this thread?
not an OS problem. See my post above. I wish people would read the thread and find the answers.
none Of these ‘solves’ worked for me. Had to delete printer and download Canon printer drivers. Now working.
New IMAC has "filter failed" message - was working ok at first
See my solution on page 7 of this thread to see the real solution.
Printer problem mac OS Big Sur
