Epson Driver Needed for 14.0 Mac OS

Hi. I downloaded the Sonoma 14.0 OS on my Mac. Great! Well, Epson has not yet obtained the DRIVER for the MAC 14.0 operating system. So, now my PRINT options are limited. I have two paper selections in Lightroom. I have an Epson Stylus Pro 3880

I have uninstalled and installed and called Epson. They said they are waiting on Apple to get the driver information. Any news?



iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Oct 3, 2023 5:34 PM

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Oct 4, 2023 7:14 AM in response to Eileen-Jill

They said they are waiting on Apple to get the driver information. Any news?


They are stalling you. Epson does not obtain drivers; they create them. They would have had the Sonoma programming standards and requirement long before Sonoma was released to people like us. This sounds like Epson is behind on the project and blaming Apple wrongly.


Any news?


Not in these forums. As we are your fellow end users and not Apple, asking here does not make anything happen faster because Apple does not share their development processes with us.


NOTE: Printer makers like Epson may choose not continue support for really old devices. Only by visiting the Epson site will you know if your printer is supported.

Oct 11, 2023 2:39 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Thank you for the suggestion to use the IOS 13 driver as I was able to download the Epson driver even though I am running IOS 14.Epson website said it was compatible with my Epson printer and scanner. It asked me to allow downloading of Rosetta program which they said converts Intel based programs to IOS use. I clicked ok and the driver for IOS 13 worked to run my Epson scanner on my IOS 14 iMac. Before downloading the new driver my Image Capture could not detect my printer/scanner. As soon as I got the driver downloaded and installed thanks to Rosetta, the scanner box opened from Image Capture and showed my connected printer/scanner. So thank you for the suggestion! it worked!!

Oct 15, 2023 6:50 AM in response to Sooze29

As long as your printer is working on the macOS 13 drivers, not really. I just wanted to point out Epson now has Sonoma drivers.


Heck, for all we know, they aren't much, if any different from the previous release. If you look under macOS 11 and up, they all use the same 12.62 release. That doesn't mean the installer doesn't detect the OS version and install different files depending on what it finds, but that the same release works across multiple versions is a fairly good hint the installer didn't change much.

Oct 28, 2023 12:50 PM in response to robbinfromwatertown

Why would they? It's not their job to track down every possible driver for thousands of printers.


Each vendor provides Apple with drivers for their printers, and not necessarily all of them. And even of those, the drivers they provide to Apple are almost always watered down.


Such as, for our Xerox VersaLink C405, yes, Ventura and Sonoma recognize it and offer to set up the printer. But those drivers are missing a lot of settings. To get those, I have to install the full drivers available directly from Xerox.

Nov 1, 2023 9:53 AM in response to macdenife

Epson changed that not too many years ago. When we had our 4900, it came with over 50 premade printer profiles. Not that we used them since we needed to create our own profiles for use with a RIP. But they were there.


I looked at the drivers Epson makes available now for their current models, and even for the very expensive ones, they include almost no profiles. You seem to be expected to make your own, which means purchasing more very pricey hardware and software.

Epson Driver Needed for 14.0 Mac OS

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