• Printers can drive you insane

    Posted on January 28, 2023 at 22:06 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    After months of print spooler patches hardening the print spooler so that attackers can’t use printers to gain a toe-hold into the network and then launch ransomware, printer vendors are having to go back and redo printer drivers/or you are having to install more modern drivers to deal with these issues.

    Show me a Patch Tuesday and probably SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE has hit a printing issue.

    I’ve had to reinstall/touch every printer in the office or home during the course of a year.  Yesterday I was fighting with an HP printer getting it to work reliably doing remote printing. But at first I couldn’t even get the Color Laserjet to recognize that it WAS a color printer in the first place.

    I showcase in this video the spot I found to get the device to “update now” and recognize it was a color printer.

    Now I’m trying “basic” printer drivers. I have to wait until tomorrow when the person is there to test if remote printing will now behave.

    Windows
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