[sbaiddn]

I just bought an HP color laser printer this week. This despite knowing HP's shenanigans, but COSTCO has too good a deal and the wife really wanted a good modern printer (we have an HP 4Plus). I admit, it prints beautifully.

In the settings, there's a way to shutoff automatic updates, which I set. But I don't trust post-Corina HP at all and I wanted to firewall it from the internet.

It turns out my D-Link router is vastly more annoying than my printer. Unclear setting menus, no help or manual, and settings that appear to work will block every computer from the internet when the router is reset.

I hate the state of modern consumer electronics.

[Brian_K_White]

I believe some printers have been caught getting updated from the host pc via the same channel as any other print job. usb, net, doesn't matter.

So you also want to make sure you're using a generic driver and not the current "hp smart" bs drivers they've been pushing for several years. Possibly tough to do on a new enough printer, maybe no generic driver available especially for scanning unless you're using linux.

Amazingly they still offered old-style drivers for my M281fdw for my wife's win10 machine, which cleared up a problem where the printer would crash and reboot every time she sent a print job, meanwhile I had no problem from linux. Ripped out all the hp smart drivers and put in the basic ones and it never did it again, over 2 years so far. But I have to assume that they just don't even offer classic style drivers for new models by now.

[sbaiddn]

I like your drivers point. I guess I could disable the printer's wifi and USB it to a rpi4 acting as a printer server.

Ironically this new printer works great with my 20 year old SGI Fuel (which I lovingly keep), while I cant figure out how to make it work with my Plus4 (which Im keeping).

I actually really like this printer. Prints fast, great detailed settings available on a little webserver, it seems every single old printer protocol is supported. All for less than $400. Its the first HP product Ive enjoyed since I got my first CD burner in '99.

I just really distrust anything Corina has touched.

[adontz]

Mikrotiks are cheap and more than required for home. I have one and super happy.

[sbaiddn]

Never heard of them, Ill give them a look, thnx

[adontz]

I personally own this one https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s

[loloquwowndueo]

Routers are similar to printers in that respect. I had a similar experience with a d-link. Got an Asus for about 3x more money and it does everything !

[sbaiddn]

Routers... yuck. Another product I don't trust.

[jaclaz]

I thought that - generally speaking - you can set a device to static IP (no DHCP) and set no gateway to prevent it to access the internet.

Or has this changed?

[sbaiddn]

1. Didn't think of setting no gateway.

2. I don't trust an HP printer to, on occasion, try DHCP or change a setting (or look at an open wifi network but that wouldnt be the routers fault) to get an update.