Monterey 12.5 update broke airport epson printer

Thanks, Old Toad

I tried on my M1 MacBook (much speedier than my iMac) and in SafeBoot mode I did the following:

I tried to launch a print and the printer is now shown as 'In Use', with yellow dot, Printing queue showing as printing (progress bar moving back and forth) and reporting 'Printing - Connected to printer' but the printer is dead silent and not moving.

Always in SafeBoot I then :

• erased the job (green dot and Idle printer now in printer and scanner System Pref)
• added a new printer (same printer seen in Bonjour but with another name, received the alert: the Epson... already exists,... do you want to add...
• Tried to print but with same result

Same result also after downloading the Driver from Epson website and install it

I find it distressful that an OS update has broken my printing on two different computers ...

If you have any other suggestion...

Noone else experienced the same bug?

thank you VikingOSX,

i tried your suggestion:

I had to restart my router (AirPort Extreme) because the printer wasn't showing up anymore (no bonjour either).

After finding the printer, the Use selector only shows as follows, no Default nor Airprint:

help?

sorry for the confusion Jan;

I use an AirPort Extreme A1354 (4th gen?) as router and the EPSON Stylus Photo 1400 is connected to that with USB.

Both are in my studio close to my 27"iMac.

I then use 2 AirPort Express(es) wired to the Extreme to create new networks at upper floor (all with same name and password), each wirelessly connected to two more Express for Airplay use.

All was working great up until MacOS 12.4 and it was possible to print from anywhere in the house from any MacBook ...

in a further attempt to fix the issue, I deleted the content of McIntosh HD/Library/Printers.

As instructed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5BV_p7fDPk

I re-installed latest Epson driver (as it now showed missing).

Nothing.

If started by pressing the device buttons it performs heads cleaning and it is reflected in the Printing Queue window, but no jobs get printed.

I might trying activating CUPS from the Terminal, but I'm losing hope

Thank you, Jan

I tried both procedures, but the Epson still doesn't print wirelessly.

It only works if it's USB connected directly to iMac.

It's noticeable something is not ok when the print is launched pressing the 'Print' button (with the printer connected to Airport Extreme) because the printing window is flashing and disappears way more quickly than when it worked ok.

Allow me to remind that all this happened in this order:

I got back from a short holiday, turned on my iMac, (network stayed on all the time) and printed a couple of pages I needed.

All was ok.

Then noticed the available update to 12.5 in System Pref panel and launched it. (Never got around why updates are not dismissable, this since the Catalina came available, which kept annoyingly popping up or showing in red for months until I finally updated)

After the update to 12.5 finished the rebooting and all, I had to print other stuff, and this is when the problem began...

Not finding any solution, I am using this workaround:

I am sharing the printer USB connected to the iMac over the network, so available to the other devices when the iMac is on and not in sleep (it's always on and awake most of the time).

This until some working solution comes up, possibly a new OS update? ...