The last thing that Apple support suggested - which hasn't yet been done, as I was two hours in the chat and had work to do) was reinstall the operating system and do a disk repair with disk utility, which seems excessive. The Mac did recently update its operating system: currently OS11.5. I spent two hours in a chat with Apple Support doing a variety of restarts and permission checks, etc - nothing has helped. I've deleted the printer and the software, reintroduced it and restarted everything, no good.

To adjust the scan settings such as Color Restoration and where the file is saved, click Show Details. The good news is that with a few at-home troubleshooting. I've tried restarting and rebooting both the Mac and the printer, that doesn't help. Here’s how to scan on a Mac sing an Epson printer-scanner without Epson Event Manager: Open Preview in macOS and select Import From Scanner from the File menu and select your Epson printer. This issue impacted scanners from all major manufacturers, including HP, Canon, Epson, and Lexmark. I have looked all over the computer for this application, and it's not there. It will print to the printer (Epson Work Force Pro, WF-4725), but when I try to turn on the scanner, I get the message 'You do not have permission to open the application 'Epson ES0147''. My Macbook Pro will no longer work together with my Epson printer/scanner to scan.

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