2018-04-08 by brian_downunda@...
My understanding is that it's the printer firmware that you should be wary of updating, not the driver on your computer. Many years ago now there was a firmware update for a 14x0 printer that resulted in a third party lockout. Normally you'd have to go looking for one of these and install it yourself, but my recollection was that there was a package of Mac updates that had an Epson update slipped in there, and users were asked a seemingly innocuous question, like "do you want your printer software kept up-to-date automatically?", with no hint of what was entailed, until whammo! I've not seen a report of a driver update causing any lockouts. That said, I don't know how the recent HP lockout (since reversed) was implemented.
---In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, <paulmwhiting@...> wrote :
I've heard that caution about updates too... but I'm trying to remember _which_ updates. Was it updates in Windows 10? Windows 7? updates in printer drivers? and how do you prevent the updates? Some of them are automatic.
BTW, I'm using carts from MIS and from InkjetMall in my 1430 - they work fine.