I hate Printers

We have 5 Lexmark printers and one of them is a color printer. We also have 2019 Server running as print server. After Dec patch Tuesday, the color printer driver randomly changes the printer type from 'Color' to 'Black and White'. The driver we were using was Generic V4. Contacted Lexmark and they suggested I use 'Universal V2 driver'. The problem with this driver is that it prompts users for admin credentials which makes it impossible to deploy via GPO. Lexmark stated there is nothing else they can do to help. So I installed the V2 driver which solved the issue and had to update the driver on all workstations manually. Now, randomly the other 4 printers are prompting users to update the driver even the print server is using V4 drivers for these printers.

Our company downsized a few years ago so it might be just easier to by pass the print server all together and install the drivers directly to all workstations.

I hate printers.