[21h1] Print nightmare - your opinion

[dapaulio]

Not sure about the rest of you but since print nightmare we have experience inconsistent behaviour from printers where type 3 drivers don’t get mapped unless you remove the patch that is there to combat the vulnerability or upgrade to type 4.

 

Rock and a hard place dilemma

At the moment my understanding is that Microsoft recommend using type 4 drivers which is all well and good if the mfd vendor support type 4 drivers. We have a fleet of sharp printer where the only type 4 driver I can find is the UD.

 

This restores basic functionality but comes with its own gremlins. The UD only seems to provide the most basic printing and I am receiving a lot of pressure to restore the driver despite my explanation that it is a critical security update.

 

What’s everyone else’s opinions

[gaz350b]

We deploy all the required drivers to every machine (Version 3) as Microsoft guidance suggests. Printers map just fine when you do this.