


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. After reinstalling the HP driver package from Apple, and re-adding the printer in System Preferences > Printers & Scanners (and specifying the 4300 drivers), I’m able to print again with all printer functions.Many Mac users find that the ICC profiles for their printer stop appearing in applications such as Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop. I have a duplexer and multiple trays on the LaserJet 4300, so I knew that Apple’s Generic PostScript driver (which only allows duplexing) wouldn’t work for me. So then I re-installed Apple’s mega-HP driver package (last updated in 2017) from HP Printer Drivers v5.1 for OS X. But trying to re-add the printer in Printers & Scanners didn’t enable printing. Next, I deleted the printer in System Preferences > Printers & Scanners. Although I can’t recall the exact path, I found its folder location buried (to find the path, hold down the command key, and click and hold in the window’s title bar) in a folder or two that was inside an HP folder residing in /Library/Printers (not /System/Library or ~/Library/Printers). I clicked on the “Reveal in Finder” button to locate the file. Then later in the day, an HP framework file was identified by macOS as being dangerous, and something that could damage my system. And that update was a small HP driver update. Oddly, as I recall, it began earlier in the day with Software Update telling me that I had an update. I have a 16-year old HP LaserJet 4300, and I’m on macOS 10.15.7. This happened to me on Saturday, October 24. #1641: LastPass breached, Live Text aids recipe input, fix for failed MobileDeviceUpdater installsĬode-Signing Snafu Breaks Many HP Printers.

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