A Rant about Windows and Printers

Reading about the history of windows and printer drivers was...enlightening Windows V3 Printer Driver This is the classic scenario where you download the printer driver onto your computer And the printer manufacturers would each create their own (crappy) driver that follows the V3 model These were fine I guess but vulnerable to this "PrintNightmare" vulnerability so Windows freaked out and made the... Windows V4 Printer Drivers Then there was V4 which were apparently more secure but a pain in the BUTT The way these work is the driver stuff is located on the printer/printer server , not your computer Instead Windows will grab the needed driver stuff from the printer/print server If Windows says a printer has the "Microsoft enhanced Point and Print driver" , that's what that means I think you can have a V4 driver on your computer locally if the driver on your computer is the exact same as the printer/print server? This is honestly confusing Internet Printing Protocol (the GOAT) The newes