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For home network printing, one way to get around such nonsense it to set a wrong gateway ip to the printer. This way, your printer is still detectable on LAN ne
by wanderingmind 4y ago
For home network printing, one way to get around such nonsense it to set a wrong gateway ip to the printer. This way, your printer is still detectable on LAN network, while it can never connect to WAN (or internet) to update any firmware
- vasvir 4y agothanks for the advice. I did as you suggested. I have an older HP LaserJet M15w (2018). I live in Europe. I don't know if that matters but my printer hasn't been turned yet so hopefully with your trick I should be safe.
- imhoguy 4y agoSame can be achieved with parental control settings with most routers, all new devices can be cut off from the Internet by default, especially any IoT and call-home crap. Myself I run Samsung (HP) CLP-365W for over 10 years with cracked firmware for endless refills. The hardware itself is very good, just had to rotate feeder pull rubber to fix paper problem, but that is all.