I tried this on my home PC by installing the PCL5 driver for my MP C305 this caused the printspooler to restart when sending a print job.
No issues with PCL6.
MS have brought out a fix today.
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June 16, 2020—KB4567512 (OS Builds 18362.904 and 18363.904)
Updates an issue that might prevent certain printers from printing, generate print errors, or cause apps and print spoolers to close unexpectedly.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...date-kb4567512
Last edited by bsm2; 06-16-2020 at 09:15 PM.
I just installed this update on my system, and it DOES NOT resolve the problem. Still No PCL5 printing.
After realizing the problem was not resolved, I went back and re-read the details of this "Feature Update" and it seems to me that MS is just acknowledging that there are reports of a printing issue, and NOT that this update includes a fix.
And that actually makes sense, because being a full "Feature Update", this is NOT something that was just written in a day or 2 to fix a problem.
It updates my build version to 2004 from 1909 so all it did was replace my original KB4560960 with the other update KB4557957 that creates the same problem.
So we're still waiting on that fix, and I'll still be providing instructions to customers to uninstall the updates, and pause future updates for a while until that fix is available.
Last edited by sandmanmac; 06-17-2020 at 05:42 AM.
Don't expect an update for at least 3 to 4 weeks. Microsoft is very slow to resolve minor issues such as this. 15 years ago when I was the Unit Information Manager for the Transportation Company I was deployed to Iraq with I was given a website that listed all known issues for most major software, when the issue was first reported and the projected correction date. Companies like Mozilla and most malware protection had fixes in deployed within days, sometime hours. Microsoft had known issues that were often week sometime months on the list before they were resolved. If it wasn't a major security issue and they didn't have major corporate user breathing down their back in was not a priority.
Microsoft has released an out of band update for this issue. The KB numbers are:
KB4567512 for Windows 10 1903 and 1909
KB4567513 for Windows 10 1809
KB4567514 for Windows 10 1803
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Dear technical partners.
Today and had a case with this incident. On 4 computers:
1o All computers were with "PCL 6", 64-bit version.
2nd All with Update Patch. No one could print, because the program was suddenly closed.
3o Only by uninstalling the Windows Update, the bug has been fixed.
So not only does it fail with PCL5, but pcL6 too, has anyone else happened to you?
Pd:
Comment that on the 4 computers, the patch correction, I have been impossible to install it, so I derived it to the IT service of the company.
In all cases a "system credential failure" warning was skipped, any opinions on it?
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