
The printer crashes and starts booting again. No matter what you try, even hard reset, after startup the error appears even before the printer is in a state that you could install an older firmware. Unfortunately, I had not turned off the automatic firmware update.Īfter updating with the firmware 20221010 from first Error 79 comes, after a few restarts then Error 49. I myself am affected with a 4 year old Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw. HP seems to have made a whole series of printers unusable with the current firmware update. Unfortunately, the issue is current again. got in touch by mail and wrote (translated): The printers are virtually unusable as a result. A reader reportĪt the end of October 2022, HP seems to have had another firmware update for certain models, which resulted in significant collateral damage. I had a whole series of articles in the blog (see links at the end of the post) – and to make matters worse, Microsoft also interferes with Windows updates that cause printer problems.


Firmware updates for printers, which subsequently make these devices unusable for the user, are nothing new.
