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Need macOS Sequoia 15.4 driver for HP Officejet Pro X476dw MFP

I have two MBP. The MBP 16" M1 is still running macOS 15.3.2. The MBP 15" Intel has been upgraded to 15.4. On this machine, an email order confirmation from Amazon prints with no body at all, while on the machine that has not been upgraded it prints "alright" (only pictures of the ordered product are blacked out). Evidently the warnings over the last few updates, i.e., that legacy drivers won't be supported, has with 15.4 become a reality.


Does anyone know where I can obtain the required driver? I went to the HP Support site -- naive little me! -- and got set on an Easter egg hunt to Hades and back again without finding anything useful. HP Easy Start might be useful, but it doesn't find my already configured and wirelessly connected printer. It seems I would have to reconnect and/or reset the printer, which I hesitate to do, since that might result in printing not working on the unupgraded machine.

MacBook Pro 15″

Posted on Apr 2, 2025 3:35 AM

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Posted on Apr 5, 2025 8:00 AM

I am having similar/same issue since the 15.4 update. IP printing for all of my HP printers either at the office or at home no longer works. This requires me to remove and readd them as AirPrint printers, which is a work around, but ultimately not a solution.


The problem this creates is since AirPrint is Bonjour/mDNS, I cannot print to my office printer from home over my VPN tunnel. Hopefully we get a fix for this soon

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Apr 5, 2025 8:00 AM in response to Richard Liu

I am having similar/same issue since the 15.4 update. IP printing for all of my HP printers either at the office or at home no longer works. This requires me to remove and readd them as AirPrint printers, which is a work around, but ultimately not a solution.


The problem this creates is since AirPrint is Bonjour/mDNS, I cannot print to my office printer from home over my VPN tunnel. Hopefully we get a fix for this soon

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Apr 2, 2025 3:41 AM in response to Richard Liu

Addendum to above posting: I don't know for sure that the problem wasn't already present in 15.3. I was getting ready to install 15.4 on the MBP 16 M1 and so was using the already upgraded MBP 15 Intel to print some shared documents. Had I tried to print on the same machine before upgrading it, the problem might have appeared then.

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Apr 5, 2025 9:41 AM in response to DTurley83

Thanks for your reply. I didn't want to perform the installation via iOS, as HP Easy Start.app suggested, because I was quite sure that, whatever it does, it doesn't install anything on the MBP, which is where I'm experiencing the problem.


More to this saga: I make weekly backups of the machine with SuperDuper! Yesterday I decided to boot the last backup (of 15.3.1). My plan was to then use SuperDuper! to clone the clone to the MBP, effectively downgrading it fro 15.4 to 15.3.1. I would then boot the machine normally, and try to update the printer stuff using HP Easy Start.app. Unfortunately, the MBP would boot the clone. Something about an error, trying again. Since I had set thee boot disk in the System Settings before shutting the MBP 15 down, it just looped and I finally had to hold down the Option key while start to get back to the internal drive. I have never had a problem booting a clone, and I've been using SuperDuper! for as long as I've been using Mac's, it seems. Certainly since Apple's switch to Power PC. So my guess is, something has been changed by the upgrade to 15.4 in the firmware.

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Need macOS Sequoia 15.4 driver for HP Officejet Pro X476dw MFP

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