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N0rA1n Author

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Printers and Macs

I have an Epson ET 4550 printer, I hate it or is it my Mac?

Always offline, remove, reboot, sick of it. Can't scan, print etc.

Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Jan 1, 2022 6:49 AM

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Grant Bennet-Alder

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Posted on Jan 1, 2022 8:27 AM

Your Mac generally uses Bonjour Discovery protocol to find network resources like Printers. Bonjour relies on IPv6 set to Link-local only to look around your network and keep track of those things.

This is what Mine looks like:

but some Printer makers rely on their own Discovery Utilities, and epson provides such a Utility:

https://epson.com/Support/Printers/All-In-Ones/ET-Series/Epson-ET-4550/s/SPT_C11CE71201#drivers

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