'Filter' failed error when printing from EPSON

Hi Rejean

As you will know from my earlier post I'm also experiencing this problem but on a much cheaper printer. I've now had extensive talks with Epson and they have been very supportive but have been unable to solve the problem. So I am now using an old Macbook Pro running OS X 10.6.8 (it's an old single core system so can't (luckily) be upgraded) as a print server. It can run the printer fine and then it can be Shared over the network with my other studio machines. It's not ideal but it works. My printer is a multifunction (Artisan 725) and just to note this doesn't work for the Scanner (which won't share) - so I can only use this function on the 10.6.8 system.

Hope this is helpful.

Paul

On Mavericks - Uninstalled and reinstalled several times before finally getting my Epson 2200 to not get the "stopped" message and print nicely.

Keep adding and deleting until it works.

I did this by selecting from printer list in "bonjour", not "neighboring" printers. Took about 5 times for me.

BTW- It was working fine until a recent automatic Apple software installed an Epson driver update for this printer.

I had the 'Filter Failure' problem too (on my Epson PX730WD).

Tried everything but nothing helped.

then I noted that I could print from Word but not from Adobe Reader (pdf).

My problem was that Ghostscript (postscript / pdf interpreter software) apparently was broken.

http://www.ghostscript.com/download/

does not provide installers for Mac OSx (just sources)

With google, I found

http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/

and

http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/download/t-free-ghostscript-for-mac-os-x-fre eware-hlidifhu.html

that provided packages for Mac OSx (Mavericks in my case).

Download, Install

Problem solved!

Hi

Tried downloading ghostscript from the 2nd link you provided. It gave me a bunch of folders/files and I haveno idea how to install it?
I followed some steps from wikihow on how to install, with terminal screen and couldnt get it to work? Thanks.

Not sure what you are trying or what system you have.

I have an Macbook pro 2013 with OSx 10.9 Mavericks.

I downloaded a ghostscript 9.10 package (Mac 'installer') from

http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/Ghostscript-9.10.pkg

the file called Ghostscript-9.10.pkg downloads in your download folder.

doubleclick that file and an installer starts.

next next next and done.

(Ghostscript.com has the linux sources to compile a Mac specific installer but I don't know how to do that and professor Robert Koch seemed to have done that nicely.)

iMac 13.2 Intel running Maverics 10.9.1. Same problem. Tried the Ghostscript install, which seemed to complete successfully, but the problem persists. This problem seems to have come about as a result of automatic updating of the OS. I certainly hope that Apple will pay attention and fix it, because I have already tried all the fixes that I could find posted on 'discussions.'

This seems to be what failed:

2/5/14 11:10:47.303 AM cups-exec[396]: sandbox cache error 3850

2/5/14 11:10:47.303 AM cups-exec[394]: sandbox cache error 3850

2/5/14 11:10:47.882 AM cups-exec[395]: sandbox cache error 1: no such table: profiles

2/5/14 11:10:48.432 AM Epson_1[395]: The function `CGContextErase' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.

that seems like a very different problem than I had.

I'd say - if you have timemachine and not too many changes afther this failed update- go back to before.

the rest doesn't really make sense to me.

only the 'epson' thing would indicate that it is related to the printer.

The solution (for me, at least) was simple: I had set Paper Handling to Even Only for a previous print job and it had remained. I couldn't print a 1-page report because it was page 1, an odd number. I reset Paper Handling to All and everything's great.

I too had this "Filter failed" error with my Epson R1900 printer........What resolved the issue for me was going into System Preferences >> Printers & Scanners >> and deleting the printer; after deleting the printer, I clicked the "+" symbol at the bottom of the pane and added the printer back and all has been well since.

I experienced this problem on 3 of 6 Epson 3800's. Turns out those three with the error had lost their IP address assignments, so the computers in a lab couldn't actually communicate with the printers. After setting the IP info again (and for good measure deleting the printer driver, and installing the latest drivers from Epson), all is well.

Same problem here. Probably due to errors in the document (pdf's generated by some billing system of one of my vendors). I solve this by printing the document first to a new pdf file and then to the printer. Works always.

Had the same problem when trying to print photos on my Epson R3000. Thanks to everyone's ideas, it looks as though the problem may be resolved - at least for now. Here's hoping we get an update to prevent it happening again.

For what it’s worth, I had this problem just now and came across this discussion. I then stumbled across a solution in my case — I am using my Epson Stylus Office BX535WD via WiFi, and have two parallel WLANs connected to each other. I realized that I was not in the same WLAN as the Epson printer — my MacBook could see it and would send a print job, but it would cause the error noted. I then switched to the same WLAN as the printer, and then it worked fine. Go figure.

Okay, regarding this problem:

I'm trying to print to an Advent AW10 printer from an Imac running Yosemite 10.10.1 and it's been driving me nuts for the last two months...

I got on to Advent yesterday and recieved this instruction from their support team this morning and it worked and I'm now printing away merrily:

Please follow below steps:

In Spotlight search window type Terminal and then press Enter.

This should bring up the terminal window/program.

In the Terminal type:

sudo sh -c 'echo "Sandboxing Relaxed" >> /etc/cups/cups-files.conf' then press Enter.

It will ask for your password. Please enter system password.(You will not see password entering)

After that type following:

sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd then press Enter.

Try Printing.

I don't think this is specific to Advent and is rather simply an 'opening up' of something blocking the 'printer channels' (layman's terms obviously)

Hope this helps people out!