Windows 10: After update to 20H2, printer just starts printing documents at random

Hi Y'all, hope all is well for you these Love in the time of Covid days,

Has anyone else had this happen to them??? After updating to 20H2 yesterday, and having done nothing consequential today, my printer all of a sudden just started printing documents at seeming random. Some were normal Word documents others were emails from Gmail, which should be on their servers not my computer, right??? I checked the print queue and it said there were no documents awaiting printing. My printer is an Eco-Tank ET-4750 with quite a bit of mileage. The only way to stop the printing is to unplug the printer USB jack from the USB hub. Then it stops printing immediately and kicks the sheet it was working on out the exit and into the tray.

This is weird!
Windows 10 Home Edition v2004 build 20H2???

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After update to 20H2, printer just starts printing documents at random

Hi Y'all, hope all is well for you these Love in the time of Covid days,

Has anyone else had this happen to them??? After updating to 20H2 yesterday, and having done nothing consequential today, my printer all of a sudden just started printing documents at seeming random. Some were normal Word documents others were emails from Gmail, which should be on their servers not my computer, right??? I checked the print queue and it said there were no documents awaiting printing. My printer is an Eco-Tank ET-4750 with quite a bit of mileage. The only way to stop the printing is to unplug the printer USB jack from the USB hub. Then it stops printing immediately and kicks the sheet it was working on out the exit and into the tray.

This is weird!
Windows 10 Home Edition v2004 build 20H2???

 

Windows 20H2 - All Printers Offline - Need to Restart Print Spooler Every Time to Print

Hi

I updated to Windows 10 Pro 20H2 through the Windows 10 October 2020 Update Assistant. Every since, whenever I go to print something, I find the printers are offline and won't print. The only way to get something to print is to go to Services and restart
the Print Spooler. Every print job is this way. It was not like this before the update to 20H2. Any suggestions?

Ian

 

Windows 10 Home Won't Print to Remote Printer


I have three computers.
Machine 1: Windows 10 pro, has the USB Brother HL-5040 printer
Machine 2: Windows 10 pro, prints OK to the remote printer.
Machine 3: Windows 10 home, Used to print, but not anymore (THIS IS THE PROBLEM).
I’ve tried everything that I can think of, and would appreciate any suggestions.
I did these steps on Machine 3 that did not work.

1. Remove the printer device.
2. Add a Printer
3. The printer that I want isn’t listed
4. Select a shared printer by name
5. Browse
6. Select the displayed Machine 1.
7. Select the displayed Printer.
8. Next
9. Failure “Connect to Printer”.
10. Add a printer using a TCP/IP address or Hostname
11. Next
12. Set Hostname to Machine 2, and set port name.
13. Detecting TCP/IP Port
14. Additional Port information required.
15. Device Type – Standard, Brother Port Server
16. Next
17. Detecting the Driver Model
18. Install The Print Driver
19. Select Brother and Brother HL-5040
20. Next
21. Replace the Current Driver
22. Printer Name (setting it to HL-5040)
23. Next
24. Do not share this printer
25. Next
26. You’ve successfully added “HL-5040”
27. Finish

Printing on Machine 3 puts the document in the print queue, which reports error printing.
Printing from Machine 2 to the printer on Machine 1 works perfectly.
All three machines are in the same HomeGroup. Machine 3 can access the shared files from Machine 1.