Printers and Macs
I have an Epson ET 4550 printer, I hate it or is it my Mac?
Always offline, remove, reboot, sick of it. Can't scan, print etc.
Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.6
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Your Mac generally uses Bonjour Discovery protocol to find network resources like Printers. Bonjour relies on IPv6 set to Link-local only to look around your network and keep track of those things.
This is what Mine looks like:
but some Printer makers rely on their own Discovery Utilities, and epson provides such a Utility:
https://epson.com/Support/Printers/All-In-Ones/ET-Series/Epson-ET-4550/s/SPT_C11CE71201#drivers
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