Epson Driver Needed for 14.0 Mac OS

Same problem here. I just bought a new Mac Studio, downloaded OS 14, got my Lightroom and Photoshop fully upgraded and... my P600 will not work with the "newest Epson 12.62 driver." AirPrint works just fine - but the printer will not respond to Epson's proprietary driver. This is frustrating.

I found a simple (but a bit weird) solution for my epson WF 3520 and Sonoma and it works for me.

1. From Appstore download "Physical Scanner Connect"
2. Launch it once.
3. Now all standard soft for MAC recognizes my scanner.

This is an update. I previously mentioned I couldn't get my P600 driver to work with the new Sonoma OS. That is fixed. I found out the wireless setup on my P600 allowed the drivers to work. The driver that installed was 12.62IP. Now I have full function and performance on the printer.

Try eliminating the USB cable and go wireless.

Advice? Reset the printing system and add the printer again. This often cures many printing problems.

Reset the printing system on your Mac to solve a problem - Apple Support

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!!

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.

They don't have macOS 14.x drivers listed, but I'd be very surprised if the Ventura drivers didn't work.

https://epson.com/Support/Printers/Professional-Imaging-Printers/Epson-Stylus-Pro-Series/Epson-Stylus-Pro-3880/s/SPT_CA61201-VM?review-filter=macOS+13.x

Epson’s website says the driver for your Stylus Pro 3880 was released 10/11/2023 version 12.62 and supports maxOS 14. Go to Epson Support, enter your model and macOS 14.

Hello.

Hoping I can jump in on this - I'm all out of ideas:

I'm running OS14.4 on an M2Pro Mini, and this 'latest' driver isn't driving my 3800 at all. It's the same driver I use on my old Intel MBPr running OS11.7.10. That worked fine.

I'm using the same usb lead as I used with the Macbook, have tried it direct to the machine and passthrough via the monitor. The printer has been removed and re-added a couple of times now. The SP3800 doesn't do wireless, so I haven't got that option that another poster had success with.

As you can see in the attached screenshot, there is a "communication error", but I don't know how to find out what that error is and how to fix it.

The irony is that I bought the new mac to speed up LR edits and drive the 27" monitor (the MBPr wasn't up to the job) - specifically because I wanted to make better quality prints more easily.

Any thoughts gratefully received,

Nick.

Same experience here, but I got it working with Print-Tool fine despite it saying "software for the printer is missing" on the print centre dialogue. I'm on 14.4.1 with the 12.62 driver.

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.

https://epson.ca/Support/Printers/Single-Function-Inkjet-Printers/Epson-Stylus-Series/Epson-Stylus-Pro-3800-Professional-Edition/s/SPT_C635011PRO?review-filter=macOS+14.x

And Make very very sure to change the Default to macOS 14 Sonoma

It also depends on how much you paid for the printer. Xerox and most other manufacturers do the same thing. Cheap or somewhat inexpensive printers don't get very many updates for major OS changes (or many updates at all). Expensive models are supported for much longer.

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.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. All of my paper profiles are gone but I'm able to print. I guess Epson views its very expensive photo printers as serving a niche market not deserving of quick support. I have quite a bit of work ahead of me reinstalling my fine art paper profiles.