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by ilikejam 2051 days ago
HP printers do in-band firmware updates via print jobs?
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Actually, yeah. It's actually a really great solution, because it means you don't have to write a complicated firmware update protocol for every platform; you just "print" the firmware upgrade, and it gets the job done for you.

Of course, it opens up the printer to some pretty serious security problems, but let's just ignore that...

An old Actiontec router I had actually used FTP to recover its firmware. I recall having to use a QUOTE FLASH command.