>Except for security-related fixes, third-party printer driver updates will no longer be allowed. Existing third-party printer drivers can be installed from Windows Update or users can install printer drivers using printer manufactures installer programs.
In a few years, you're no longer going to be able to install a printer company's official drivers from Windows Update. Either you get Microsoft's universal driver installed, and then to install the HP / Epson / Brother / etc. program with advanced features from the Microsoft Store, OR you download the official drivers from HP / Epson / Brother / etc.'s website and install them manually, like you already do.
I have been using Brother's printer since 2018 and I haven't installed its driver. They use canon 3 in 1 printer and my work laptop automatically connects to it from windows, never had to install any canon driver.
What's the big deal?
If it works then it works, why add extra bloat?
As much as you hate microsoft and windows, I do too, but this isn't one of the reason to hate it.
>then get a raspberry pi or something and make a print server for it
This. > I've got an HP > printing at home is a hassle. > my work Mac > wife's Windows laptop > son's school windows laptop that is locked down like crazy (I can get shell/admin on it but don't want to get him in trouble) > printing was a hassle
Solution: a $15 Pi Zero W > connects via USB directly to the printer > Pi is powered via USB direct from the printer > if printer is on, Pi is up and running > install CUPS on Pi > Pi connects to WiFi network > Pi is the print server > print to the Pi
It. Just. Works.
People read just the headline and don't understand the changes mean.
1) Do you have an old printer with the Setup.exe or bare driver files somewhere? It'll still work after the change just like it did before.
2) Do you have a newer printer that, when you first connected it to your computer, it automatically installed drivers from Windows Update? It'll still work after the change just like it did before.
3) Are you going to buy a printer sometime in the future? Either it will have to be compatible with Microsoft's IPP or Mopria drivers, or they will have to give you a Setup.exe file.
4) What won't work? In 2025 and beyond, if you're a company that makes a new printer, Microsoft won't let you upload your custom drivers to Windows Update.
Seriously, Windows 11 isn't going to block users from installing their old printers on new systems, that's not what they're "ending support" about.
>What won't work
A pdf printer so you don't have to buy a printer + a a scanner to get a document some nagger-tier company (such as micro$oft) generates saved on your computer because those naggers insist that yu vill own nothing.
this is why ancient societies foricbly regulated the merchant class to the bottom of society and heavily restricted their rights and privileges. when you let money driven psychopaths rule over you, they do insane shit that only benefits themselves. A king might send people to die for a handful of clay, and a religious fanatic might kill himself to meet his god sooner than later, but the merchant will reverse black and white and demand you pay them for the right to believe their lies.
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Lool. Actually it's literally the exact opposite; Ancient societies gave merchants free reign on everything except making a honest living, which they were forbidden to do.
It literally is. You could print more reliably in the 1980s than you can today because of retarded custom drivers. Getting rid of parallel ports was a mistake.
OH MY GOD THANK YOU FUCK THIRD PARTY PRINTER DRIVERS HOLY SHIT.
YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH BULLSHIT I HAD TO GO THROUGH AT MY WORKPLACE JUST TO GET THAT SHIT WORKING.
Plot twist: the floodgates have opened in linuxland and the troons have ravaged through the little that made it good, causing it to degrade at a rate higher than wangblows'
Good. Just follow the standards instead of making your own shitty proprietary drivers. My printer is detected automatically on Linux instantly when it connect to the Wi-Fi and works flawlessly, thanks to the standards.
Only downside is lack of support for older printers.
There is no standard. The reason it works on linux is because Apple contributed CUPS, which is a big database of every printer and the bullshit you have to do to make it work.
It's a good thing I slaved windows 10 on my linux metal for this type of situation. I love winapps and KVM/QEMU so much bros, it's unreal. Fuck microsoft.
>Except for security-related fixes, third-party printer driver updates will no longer be allowed. Existing third-party printer drivers can be installed from Windows Update or users can install printer drivers using printer manufactures installer programs.
In a few years, you're no longer going to be able to install a printer company's official drivers from Windows Update. Either you get Microsoft's universal driver installed, and then to install the HP / Epson / Brother / etc. program with advanced features from the Microsoft Store, OR you download the official drivers from HP / Epson / Brother / etc.'s website and install them manually, like you already do.
I dont use either of theres. why would anyone?
I have been using Brother's printer since 2018 and I haven't installed its driver. They use canon 3 in 1 printer and my work laptop automatically connects to it from windows, never had to install any canon driver.
What's the big deal?
If it works then it works, why add extra bloat?
As much as you hate microsoft and windows, I do too, but this isn't one of the reason to hate it.
ah the days of driver CDs actually being necessary
I think the new thing is to present the device as USB mass storage with drivers in an autorun script
>ah the days of driver CDs actually being necessary
anon, new computers dont come with cd drives.
printers have all supported "driverless" (ipp-everywhere, airprint) printing for the last >10 years op
My printer is way older than 20 years and it works fine
then get a raspberry pi or something and make a print server for it
>then get a raspberry pi or something and make a print server for it
This.
> I've got an HP
> printing at home is a hassle.
> my work Mac
> wife's Windows laptop
> son's school windows laptop that is locked down like crazy (I can get shell/admin on it but don't want to get him in trouble)
> printing was a hassle
Solution: a $15 Pi Zero W
> connects via USB directly to the printer
> Pi is powered via USB direct from the printer
> if printer is on, Pi is up and running
> install CUPS on Pi
> Pi connects to WiFi network
> Pi is the print server
> print to the Pi
It. Just. Works.
People read just the headline and don't understand the changes mean.
1) Do you have an old printer with the Setup.exe or bare driver files somewhere? It'll still work after the change just like it did before.
2) Do you have a newer printer that, when you first connected it to your computer, it automatically installed drivers from Windows Update? It'll still work after the change just like it did before.
3) Are you going to buy a printer sometime in the future? Either it will have to be compatible with Microsoft's IPP or Mopria drivers, or they will have to give you a Setup.exe file.
4) What won't work? In 2025 and beyond, if you're a company that makes a new printer, Microsoft won't let you upload your custom drivers to Windows Update.
Seriously, Windows 11 isn't going to block users from installing their old printers on new systems, that's not what they're "ending support" about.
>What won't work
A pdf printer so you don't have to buy a printer + a a scanner to get a document some nagger-tier company (such as micro$oft) generates saved on your computer because those naggers insist that yu vill own nothing.
>can't print
>can't screenshot
>can't download
>demands you send document from 5 years ago which you had no way of archiving
i hate the modern world
this is why ancient societies foricbly regulated the merchant class to the bottom of society and heavily restricted their rights and privileges. when you let money driven psychopaths rule over you, they do insane shit that only benefits themselves. A king might send people to die for a handful of clay, and a religious fanatic might kill himself to meet his god sooner than later, but the merchant will reverse black and white and demand you pay them for the right to believe their lies.
Lool. Actually it's literally the exact opposite; Ancient societies gave merchants free reign on everything except making a honest living, which they were forbidden to do.
How about Microsoft simply ends the lives of printer company executives who insist on their scam ink cartridge schemes?
inkjets in general are a meme, get a laser/led printer
It literally is. You could print more reliably in the 1980s than you can today because of retarded custom drivers. Getting rid of parallel ports was a mistake.
I won't use Windows 11, 12, or 13+.
I won't pay for MS Office subscriptions.
I won't use OneDrive, and I won't use Outlook.
>uses Windows 10
OH MY GOD THANK YOU FUCK THIRD PARTY PRINTER DRIVERS HOLY SHIT.
YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH BULLSHIT I HAD TO GO THROUGH AT MY WORKPLACE JUST TO GET THAT SHIT WORKING.
I don't understand the problem, my wi-fi HP printer just werks in macOS. What is a print driver?
all modern printers are "driverless", this only affects printers made before around 2010
not my problem.
Microsoft is rapidly killing everything that made Windows more functional than Linux. It's so insane.
Plot twist: the floodgates have opened in linuxland and the troons have ravaged through the little that made it good, causing it to degrade at a rate higher than wangblows'
thank fuck
is image acquisition ever going to be not busted?
>inb4 werkz on my machine
Good. Just follow the standards instead of making your own shitty proprietary drivers. My printer is detected automatically on Linux instantly when it connect to the Wi-Fi and works flawlessly, thanks to the standards.
Only downside is lack of support for older printers.
There is no standard. The reason it works on linux is because Apple contributed CUPS, which is a big database of every printer and the bullshit you have to do to make it work.
It's a good thing I slaved windows 10 on my linux metal for this type of situation. I love winapps and KVM/QEMU so much bros, it's unreal. Fuck microsoft.