Windows 11 printer bug blocks 22H2 improve, superior options
If you’re a Windows 11 consumer whose been having issues together with your printer’s extra superior options, Microsoft has some unhealthy information: You could have to attend—on each your printer issues and the improve to the Windows 11 2022 Update (22H2).
Microsoft has positioned a compatibility maintain on sure PCs making an attempt to replace to Windows 11 22H2. This is supposed to stop them from receiving the improve earlier than the problem resolved, Microsoft says. (Thanks to Neowin for locating this.)
The state of affairs is a catch-22 of kinds: Certain printers could have points wirelessly speaking to their host PCs, and informing them of sure superior options. In this case, Windows controls the printer with the Microsoft IPP Class Driver or Universal Print Class Driver, primarily a generic interface to permit the printer to print. The connectivity points forestall the host PC from figuring out the extra superior options, resembling shade printing, dual-sided/duplex printing, and extra, and thus these options don’t work.
Unfortunately, the shortcoming to print utilizing superior options can carry over to Windows 11 22H2, therefore the maintain. The downside is that Microsoft is taking a shotgun method in the intervening time: If your PC’s printer makes use of an IPP Class Driver or Universal Print Class Driver, it wont be capable to improve till Microsoft resolves the problem. Microsoft is making an attempt to slim down the answer to isolate the printers that match inside the constraints of the issue—generic drivers, lack of ability to speak, superior options—however isn’t there but.
If you’re determined to improve, you possibly can take away the printer by way of the Windows Settings menu (Bluetooth & gadgets > Printers & scanners) after which attempt to improve to Windows 11 22H2.
The caveat: That could not occur immediately. Windows 11 22H2 could solely seem in Windows Update after 48 hours, which implies you’ll be left with out the power to print for as much as two days. And no, downloading the replace manually gained’t assist: “We advocate that you don’t try and manually improve utilizing the Update now button or the Media Creation Tool till this situation has been resolved and the safeguard eliminated,” Microsoft says.
Upgrades all the time introduce new bugs, however that is an annoying one. You could should make a run to your native copy store to print out any essential paperwork whereas Microsoft kinds this out.