Microsoft's decision to phase out long‑standing legacy printer driver support in Windows 11 is now moving from roadmap to reality — and the consequences will ripple from home offices to enterprise print fleets. The staged end‑of‑servicing plan, first announced in September 2023, reached a new...
Set Up and Manage a Local Print Server in Windows 10/11
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30 minutes
A local print server lets one Windows PC share one or more printers to other PCs on the same network. This is useful when you want a single USB/network-connected printer to be available...
For many Windows 11 users, few peripherals are as persistently frustrating as the humble printer. Often expected to deliver crisp documents at the click of a button, printers can be prone to fits of technical confusion. In early 2025, this familiar narrative took a fresh and peculiar turn: after...
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Microsoft has issued a reminder that the longstanding Line Printer Daemon (LPR/LPD) protocol is on its way out. In a move that highlights its commitment to modernizing network printing, Microsoft plans to deprecate this legacy printing method over the next few months. This announcement is...
Hi all
I'm new at this whole IP Based Location Printing thing...
I'm currently managing a small school's network. They've got 3 printers on IP. All printers are shared via the domain PC (running the DC).
One printer is in the Computer Lab, the other in the Staff Lab, and the other one in...
The HP Printer Display Hack is a simple background application that periodically checks the current price of a selected stock and sends it to the display of HP (and compatible) laser printers.
IntroductionThis app is based on an old hack from back to at least 1997 that uses the HP Job control...