For months, a significant portion of Windows 11 users were entangled in a bizarre episode: their USB-connected printers, instead of faithfully reproducing documents, suddenly began churning out pages of cryptic text, network commands, and protocol gibberish. This unintended printer séance, as some have humorously dubbed it, was not only a nuisance but also emblematic of the fragile harmony between modern operating systems and legacy hardware. With the release of update KB5053657 in March...