[FirmwareBurner]

>It goes all the way back to Windows 3.11, where printer drivers often directly fiddled the Centronics parallel port themselves.

I know a large bank who had a well paid dev on the payroll who's job was exclusively reverse engineering, patching and writing windows printer drivers so their old specialized institutional printers could keep working on modern Windows because the printer manufacturer would not publish newer drivers.

Printing is still a very important part of many wealthy legacy industries which explains why there's so much fuss around it.