Since I installed El Capitan10.11.4 on my Macbook Air Serial no.C0****6T6 . I get a message saying ”printer not responding”. It will sit for minutes and then all of sudden start to print??? I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Epson driver but no improvement! How can I solve this problem?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), null
Is the printer capable of using a built-in wireless channel instead of USB cable?
Also, try a new printer cable.
Sometimes you can correct printer issues by trying the original setup instruction
for the Mac OS X which accompanied the printer. Once the printer is set up, any
Mac that has drivers, and some that don't, should be able to print. Especially if
the model Epson has air-print or bonjour capabilities; as my Epson 845 has.
The 'geek guys' at a certain store told me to download a huge Epson driver file
(over 1GB) so I could get a printer bought there to work with my OS X; none of
those drivers were necessary; the answer was in set-up.
As some peripherals may not be supported going forward, there may be issue
with drivers at some point. Feature sets can be affected by use of newer drivers
for older printers; I've found some of my great printers are hobbled by new drivers.
And there are no correct old ones that carry the great original features forward.
So at some point, you may have to carefully choose a different new printer that
hopefully can give you compatible useful printing and good feature support in
the newest operating system. Or keep an old Mac + OS X on-hand to print from.
Perhaps someone has a reasonably workable resolution to this problem... 😐
Visit Epson's support website and check if they have a newer driver for your printer available.
Otherwise, you can always try Gutenprint
You may have tried the drivers as included with your new OS X 10.11(.4)
since Apple usually tries to include as many drivers as possible; including
many for Epson and other popular peripherals.
There are some listings for Epson 545 drivers for OS X 10.11 in this search:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Epson+545+Drivers+for+OS+X+10.11&t=ffsb
When I'd checked for drivers for an OS X, the Apple linked site had a pile
(directed back to Epson) that became the huge download I'd mentioned.
Third-party drivers may work in some aspects of an All-in-One printer, so
you may be able to restore printing, but not scanning, or other partial use.
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
PS: if your computer doesn't have or you did not find a suitable single driver
from the Epson site itself (I found several, a few most likely adequate) there
is this other link to Epson Printer drivers v3.1 for OS X that may have some:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1792?locale=en_US
Was looking back through some earlier replies and remembered seeing this.
Cannot say if it would help you or not. The duck-duck-go search has Epson
links within. Older printers are less likely to have all their functions supported.
In any event...
Good luck in this matter! 🙂
Epson Workforce 545 message “printer is not responding"
