epson printer software update 2.14 killed my printer

This worked for me! My Perfection 1250 scanner is working again! Thanks Joel! You did far for me than Apple. I'd like to send you some iTunes credits, if I could.

Epson Perfection 1670, OS 10.7.5 (Update Killed The Scanner)

Thanks to Joel Brunner!!!

Mac updated Epson drivers and the my Perfection 1670 stopped working!!! I spent hours trying to figure out what happened!!!

Follow Brunner's advice!!

1. Delete the new Epson Scanner.app (in Library/Image/Capture)

2. Follow Brunner's link to download the old Epson Scanner.app

3. Place the downloaded Epson Scanner.app file into your folder (you will need to authenticate)

4. Reboot!

BINGO!!! THANKS A MILL!!!

Glad to have helped!

I've put the Scanner advice in a more on-topic thread someone else started entitled: HT3669 Epson Scanner will not work...

I went to the link and the download is gone. This *****. I thought I broke the scaner at first, tried it on an older imac and it works. But my perfection 1250 will not work on OS X 10.7 I'm a little *****. I have an Arts business and now I have to shuffle files around between computers?!! HEY APPLE FIX THIS!!!

For what it's worth, I just tried the 2.15 update that Apple currently has, and it still doesn't work with my Perfection 1670.

I haven't tried the advice (given by anubisBrooklyn) at the link Joel Bruner1 provided - I found a copy of EPSON Scanner.app (5.4.8) in a Time Machne backup. It sounds like you have a usable copy on the iMac, if you have that kind of access to it.

Good luck

srb

Any advice on an Epson Workforce 610. My printer stopped responding today after a software update. GRRRR!

I tried the steps that imacmoomy gave:

1. Apple-->System preferences-->Print and Scan

2. Select your printer (mine is a 7890)

3. Click the Options and Supplies button

4. Click on the drivers tab

5. Change the "Process Job by Printer", from "on" to "off"

6. Restart your printing program and try to print

but, when I got to step 5, the only options available were "skip blank page" and "warning notifications"

BTW, the update was 2.15.

I'm afraid I really don't, just some things to try. If you haven't already, try restarting the computer, power cycling the printer, etc., etc. (and please forgive me for even mentioning it).

If it prints but doesn't scan (apparently a common problem, looking around this discussion board) try replacing "EPSON Scanner.app" with an earlier, working, version as discussed above.

If it just won't work, try going to Epson's support site for your printer, http://preview.tinyurl.com/m82efxb . Tell Epson a little fib about your operatng system (use the dropdown to tell them it's 10.6.x), download the appropriate package, apply it and hope for the best. This would be what anubisBrooklyn said worked for a scanner. (What I just found is that if I switch back to 10.7 from 10.6, the site will offer downloads of both the printer driver and the scanner driver. Unfortunately, the scanner driver available, 5.5.0, doesn't work with my scanner, a Perfection 1670.)

Good luck

srb

Hi Gail,

Go to System Preferences, select Sharing and see if "Computer Name" is blank. If so, give it a name, reboot and try printing again.

Hope that helps,

Steve

Hi Steve! It worked! I am forever greatful! Gail

Hi Steven

Thanks for your help. I tried what Steveb48 said first, and it worked! You all are a great help!

Gail

Yes, going to the Epson site and selecting an earlier Mac OS worked for me. I had to select Mac OS X 10.6.x which got me epson13969.dmg.

Running the installer didn't work, though, until I first manually deleted /Library/Image Capture/Devices/Epson Scanner.

Then I ran the installer.

Scanning worked right away.

Hi gang,

So I updated to Mavericks 10.9, and accidentally updated my Epson driver, disabling my Epson Perfection 1250 scanner. D'oh!

Fortunately, I had kept the older version , and overwrote the new one, and now my scanner works again!

Follow Joel Brunner's advice!!

1. Delete the new Epson Scanner.app (in Library/Image/Capture)

2. Follow Brunner's link to download the old Epson Scanner.app

EPSONScanner5315.zip

3. Place the downloaded Epson Scanner.app file into your folder (you will need to authenticate)

4. Reboot!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5005644?answerId=22274057022#22274057022

What you'll need is the old Epson Scanner.app version 5.3.15

I have had the same problem with my Epson 1670 Photo scanner since the 2.15 update. DON'T UPDATE if you haven't already. Downloading the 10.6 driver from the Epson web site does not work either. The scanner will work but the resulting scans are jumbled.

Joel Brunner was absolutely correct. The 5.3.15 version of EPSON scanner works perfectly. Unfortunately his link no longer works. BUT you can get this verison of the driver if you still have the Install Mountain Lion app on your hard drive. I used Pacifit to extract it and I put it in /Library/Image Capture/Devices (deleting the old one fiorst of course) and it works like a charm!