Yosemite Printer problem

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Just updated to Yosemite, which seems very good, but I have a printer problem. I get a Filter error message and suspect I need a new driver for my Epson Stylus Photo 2880. Unfortunately Epson's own Driver Manager software is Windows only. Suggestions please.
 
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Try this:
in Print prefs, delete the printer.
Restart the Mac. Now re-add the printer. It should auto-download and install the new driver.

For Yosemite, drivers have to be the "latest," because Yosemite changes the default location of some print system files.
 
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The dreaded filter error problem! There is a link to Apple in this thread that works for some. Didn't work for me, but the Epson folks are reporting success with it.
 
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Good luck. I ended up after 3 days of screwing with it just installing Mavericks back on my system
 
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Thank you gsahli and MacInWin - I'll give it a whirl - and thanks for the moral support Exodist. At least I've still got my desktop PC to print from, till I get it sorted. Don't want to give upon Yosemite yet. Safari has suddenly become so much more useful.
 
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Thanks again gsahli. I followed your suggestion of reinstalling and it did the trick.
 

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