Life has been a bit fraught over the past two days. My Epson printer started to play up. It was new a month or so ago - the third one I have had over ten years! It uses bottles of inks not cartridges so is much cheaper for me with my cards - needed to Saturday’s Christmas Market. After all sorts of things, Nicholas over the road bought a new USB cable for a tenner - and that appears to have solved it all! The message came up saying there was a communication problem.
Simple solution - when you realise that the USB cable is probably the oldest thing I have on my network!