
But the more you’ve customized your printer settings, the more you have to lose, and the more time you’ll spend installing and setting up all of your printers again. This might be acceptable if you always use built-in and default settings. If you have multiple printers and you reset the printing system, you lose all of that for all of your printers. The problem with deleting the printer is that you lose printer-specific settings such as custom paper sizes, custom printer names, and macOS printing presets for that printer. Right-click the list, choose Reset Printing System, and reinstall the printer.Delete the printer (select it in the list, click the plus sign at the bottom of the list), and reinstall the printer.The solution typically suggested by technical support and found on most forums are to go into System Preferences, open Printers and Scanners, and try one or both of these actions: This problem seems to happen in more recent versions of macOS, but not in Windows. If you find this problem is also happening with another printer brand such as Canon, the principles should be the same but the details might vary. I’m most familiar with this problem on Epson photo inkjet printers, so I wrote this article from that point of view. That gets old fast, so I worked out a way to resolve this issue permanently. They’re often advised to delete and reinstall the printer, or to reset the macOS printing system, but in some cases the problem comes back and they have to delete and reinstall the printer again. Many Mac users find that the ICC profiles for their printer stop appearing in applications such as Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop.
