If you have a printer hooked up to your company laptop via a USB cable but are unable to print, there are several potential solutions. Not all printer issues like these are related to connection ...

Computers and their peripherals specialize in Murphy's Law: the greater your need for their services, the greater the likelihood of their uncooperative behavior. A USB printer can't output your ...

Printer-maker Brother has confirmed that its devices are facing issues related to connections via USB on Microsoft's shiny new Windows 11 OS. The firm has noted the following problems that its ...

Some users of HP Printer and HP Smart app are facing an issue. Their Wi-Fi printer setup using USB is failing with the HP Smart app on Windows 11. In this guide, we have a few fixes for the issue. The ...

In this scenario, if a user shutdown Windows while the USB printer is connected or directly disconnects the printer, then it will not be available in the list of printer ports when reconnected or when ...

The issue, which affects Windows 10 version 1903 and newer, can happen when users connect a printer via USB and then shut down Windows and disconnect or shut off the printer. "When you start Windows ...

If you’ve been unable to print to a USB printer with Windows 10, it’s not just you: Microsoft is currently wrestling with a bug under that exact scenario. Microsoft first acknowledged the bug on July ...

A couple of weeks ago, Apple released macOS Sonoma 14.4 with the usual list of bug fixes, security patches, and a couple of minor new features. Since then, users and companies have been complaining of ...

Printers: Can’t live with them, can’t nuke them. You could always toss a misbehaving inkjet or laser out the window, but where would that leave you? Truth be told, we need our printers, despite their ...

Microsoft's emergency update, which included a fix for the so-called PrintNightmare print-spooler problem, has the unexpected side-effect of causing a problem with some printers. The PrintNightmare ...

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