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HP Ruining Their Printers By Restricting Third-Party Ink Cartridges
HP have decided to prove how their printers are awful by releasing a firmware update that blocks third-party Ink. HP Blocks Third-Party Ink HP has restricted users from using third-party inks and rival companies’ inks in their printers through a firmware update causing the printers to fully refuse to print.…
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Microsoft Removes Windows 11 22H2 Update Block As Printer Bug Gets (Probably) Fixed
Despite being released for over a year now, the consumer transition rate to Windows 11 has been sluggish at best. In fact, most estimates suggest that only 15-16% of people have so far made the move from prior Windows platforms clearly indicating that while Windows 11 is new, it’s not…
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Windows 11 2022 Update Delayed For Some as Printer Issues Continue to Persist
Late last month Microsoft officially began the rollout of its Windows 11 2022 update. Representing the first major revision the operating system has seen since its release last November, however, I think it would be fair to say that, so far, it hasn’t gone entirely according to plan. For example,…
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Epson Receives Renewed Criticism Over End-of-Life Bricking Firmware!
Printers are probably the most detested piece of computer-related technology around. They never seem happy and perpetually complain over having to do the simplest of tasks (a bit like a teenager I guess). Epson products, however, are perhaps more uniquely loathed because of a rather terse piece of coding within…
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Microsoft’s Latest Windows 10 Update May Have Broken More Printers than it Fixed
It’s certainly been something of a common theme over the last few years that updates to Windows 10 have often brought with them some pretty annoying problems for printers (as if printers were not annoying enough to begin with!). – With Microsoft finally seeming to get a handle on the…
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Printer Manufacturer Takes Things to A Disturbing New Level With DRM Paper!
The world over, printers are, more often than not, a source of constant frustration. A key factor in this is often seen in the fact that their cartridges contain DRM protections that effectively prevent you from using less expensive alternatives. And, of course, their outright refusal to print a black…
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Chipset Shortage Forces Canon to Bypass its Own Printer Cartridge DRM
I think it would be fair to say that in the remits of office technology, printers are undoubtedly an exceptionally annoying piece of hardware. The mere fact that that many models outright refuse to print in black due to the magenta ink being low isn’t just a meme, it’s a…
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Canon Sued Over Printers Doing Nothing if They Have No Ink!
I think it would be pretty fair that a printer’s main job is to, well, print. In many aspects, however, people often base their choices on other functionality offered in the product. The ability, for example, to scan documents, and, particularly for businesses, being able to both send and receive…
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Windows 10 PrintNightmare Continues to Plague Microsoft… And Users!
One of the more consistent issues for the Windows 10 operating system over the last year has been updates that have created problems with printers. Since the beginning of the year, however, and the discovery of the PrintNightmare security flaw, Microsoft has had an incredibly tough time in solving the…
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Microsoft Has Now Fixed the Printer Security Bug! (Probably)
In early July, it was revealed that a significant security flaw lay within practically every Windows 10 system. No, this isn’t anything particularly new, as many flaws have been identified in the operating system over the years. In terms of what it represented, however, this was likely one of the…
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Microsoft AGAIN Warns of Windows 10 Print Spool Security Flaw
You may recall that earlier this month, Microsoft issued a formal warning to its Windows 10 users that a major security flaw had been discovered within their ‘Printer Spooler’ service. Although specifics were not given (as you might expect), the short version is that it could potentially be used by…
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Microsoft Confirms HUGE Windows 10 Printer Security Flaw
Given that Windows 10 is roughly 6 years old now, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that most of the major security flaws within it had either been discovered or already resolved. It should be noted that these ‘backdoor’ issues can often reside for many, many, years undiscovered. And that’s…
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Another Windows 10 Printer Patch is Out (to Fix the Last Patch)
Microsoft has a pretty poor reputation with consumers regarding Windows 10 updates and, in all honesty, it’s genuinely hard to argue about it. Pretty much every time a new significant update for the operating system is released, they manage to find a way to break something that was, prior to…
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New Windows 10 Update Looks to Fix Printer BSOD’s
You may recall a few days ago that we reported on how the latest Windows 10 update (‘KB5000802’) was causing some users a pretty significant problem. Namely, whenever they went to hit the ‘Print’ icon, their operating system would rather than actually produce a document and throw up the dreaded…
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