'Filter' failed error when printing from EPSON

I had the same problem with two different Epson printers at home and my office when I installed Sierra. I tried evertthing I could think of. Finally I download the Drivers and Utilities Combo Package for my WP-4020 but for 10.11 not 10.12. I set it up from scratch and did it as WiFi print. You may not have to or be able to setup for Wifi, but that's what I did.

I was previously set up to print by USB when the the print failed after the Sierra install. Now my printer work just fine. The print dialog box doesn't the same granular control from before Sierra but, hey, it prints!!

I was hopeful that this would work but alas no. Running Sierra, did all the fixes and still nothing. Calling Epson today. My other printers work just fine but this has me stumped. If I use a gutenburg driver it works but the quality is so bad, it makes no sense to use the printer. I hope someone figures this out soon. I now have two computers, running Sierra with my Epson printers both saying filter failed. Yikes.

I spent an hour on the phone with Epson. We did all from an above post:

- Power off printer

- Open System Preferences and select Printers & Scanners.

- Highlight the Epson printer and click on the "-" sign to delete the printer.

- Click Delete Printer to confirm and close Printers & Scanners.

- On your hard drive, select Library > Printers. Delete the Epson folder.

- On your hard drive, select Library > Printers> PPD > Contents > Resources. Delete Epson Printer Name.gz

- On your hard drive, select Library > Cache and delete the Epson folder.

- Close the hard drive.

- Restart your computer and power on the printer.

- Try to add the printer. If cannot add printer Go to the Epson website to download the driver.

It still did not work. The tech said somehow the 'OS is trying to make it do postscript. There is some problem with the new OS'--I am running a beta Sierra. We gave up.

Then just as I thinking what to do...I have two computers, two epson printers --one at work and one at home--. I decided to check for a Sierra update--sure enough, there was a new public beta, update and boom it fixed the filter error and I could print again. Thanks Apple team. Happy ending to the story.

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I have a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer and started getting the "filter failed" error message yesterday. I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (on a Mac mini Late 2014) and found the following on Canon's website (click "PRODUCT FAQS" tab) under the heading "To macOS Sierra users":

https://www.canon.com.au/printers/pixma-mp250/support?option=drivers

To macOS Sierra users

Solution

When you use the printer driver for OS X EI Capitan (10.11) with

macOS Sierra (10.12), you may encounter the following problems:

- When you attempt to print, the "filter error" will be indicated and no printing

can be performed.

- Printing stops midway.

- Print results are incorrect (some portions are missing, etc.).

Solutions are now being prepared.

For the time being, the problem may be solved in the following procedures:

...

Those procedures consist of using Preview to create a .pdf of the document to be printed, then exporting that .pdf from Preview as a .tiff , and then printing from that .tiff .

This solution worked for me, and as Canon say on the linked page, they are aware of the issue with printing from macOS Sierra and "solutions are now being prepared."

I had a "similar" issue with an Epson 545 where the LAN was configured with one main router doing DHCP and another set in bridge mode. I had an ethernet cable connecting one of the 4 ethernet ports (the blue ones numbered 1to 4) of the main router to the "input" port (the yellow one) of the bridge router. Sometimes, but not always, the computer wouldn't be able to see the printer. When I changed the wiring to connect to a blue port on the bridge router instead of the yellow one, it started working perfectly.

That is, until I upgraded to Sierra, now it is broken again.

I've looked at the logs but it didn't state which. 😟

All: Installed Gutenberg driver and reinstalled the printer now working on iMac High Sierra

These are all complaints and more questions...Where is Apple on this issue? I need answers and and fundamentally I need my Epson WF P4730 to PRINT!!!