HP has released firmware updates for some of its LaserJet printer models that aims to mitigate a security vulnerability discovered in November. Researchers at Columbia University discovered that some HP LaserJet printers can be manipulated into accepting a modified firmware. The modified firmware can then be used to steal information, run network attacks or even [...]

Categories: Security

In How To Deal With Stuck Print Jobs I explained how Windows users can recover from jammed print jobs manually either from the command line, by batch script or by restarting the Print Spooler service. Sometimes print jobs get jammed and cannot be removed from the print queue anymore. Even worse, they block all other [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Roman just posted an interesting observation about pdf printers on the Ghacks forum. He noticed that the output file size of pdf printers differed considerably. In his own test, he noticed a difference of nearly 400% between the smallest file size and largest file size. While that’s just been a single test, it shows that [...]

Categories: Software

When mankind first started using computers one of the very first peripherals anybody would buy was a printer. Printing documents was just about the one thing people liked having computers for, and in the early days of dot matrix and bubblejet printers (before ink prices soared) people would print anything and everything at length. Now [...]

Categories: Hardware

The official Donation Coder NANY 2009 challenge has been announced less than 24 hours ago and there have already been several software contributions that can be downloaded from the website. One of those is the printer management and inventory software Page Countster which can be used to get a quick over view of the printers [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many computer users have one thing in common: They drink coffee, lots of it. The coffee dregs usually lands in the bin. This can be a thing of the past if the eco-friendly printer RiTi makes it from concept to prototype in the near future. The RiTi Printer replaces traditional printer ink with coffee or [...]

Categories: Hardware

Printer Ink is often referred to as liquid gold. It is pretty expensive and ways to save printer ink are always in high regard as they can save individuals and companies lots of money over the years. There are basically two things users can do once the printer has been bought and installed to save [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

ID card photo printing refers to the process of printing a number of photos in ID card format on a local printer. The ID photo has to be on the computer system and can be loaded directly into the ID card photo printing software. Once the photo has been loaded it is possible to select [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you regularly print documents on your computer you will eventually encounter a rather annoying problem: stuck print jobs. It happens that a print job gets stuck somehow. Sometimes these print jobs cannot be deleted from the print queue. The consequence is that all later print jobs will be blocked by the stuck one. We [...]

Categories: Software, Windows