Big Sur removed epson printer and now will not add it back

It begins the process of adding it but while 'setting up EPSON Workforce 610... An error occurred while trying to add the selected device. successful-ok-ignored-or-substituted-attributes'

Anyone with any ideas? Don (11-14-20 13:04 PST)

iMac Pro, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 14, 2020 1:06 PM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2020 5:46 AM

Fj2000, Thank you for sharing that. I solved my problem by doing what you did, going to Epson support and downloading the Mac 10.15.x Printer Driver v10.33 (for Mac 11.0.1 no less), ran the installer, then was successful at adding my printer in Printers and Scanners. So, thank you for sharing what you did, it also worked for me! Don (11-16-20 05:45 PST)

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Nov 17, 2020 10:05 AM in response to Don Parr

Hi, I put OS BigSur 11.0.1 on my iMac and found that my Epson WF-2530 printer would not work so I took your advice and downloaded the Mac 10.15 Printer driver from the Epson site and Hey Presto everything now works fine including the scanner. I can only think that OS BigSur knocks out the original Epson printer driver. Very grateful for you help. Thanks

Nov 19, 2020 7:15 AM in response to Camraom

Hi Camraom,


First of all, could the link that nzwarv posted on page 2 possibly be of interest in this case?


You do not say which printer it is. However, using https://www.epson.eu/viewcon/corporatesite/kb/index/1018, one can check whether a certain printer has macOS 11 Big Sur support. If so, try the support page for your printer once more; Epson may have updated the contents recently. If the support page still does not have the needed driver, see this for a possible workaround:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252055101?answerId=253919849022#253919849022


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