{"id":25537,"date":"2021-07-12T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=25537"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T22:26:05","slug":"zebra-printers-unable-to-print-after-installing-windows-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/zebra-printers-unable-to-print-after-installing-windows-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebra Printers Unable to Print After Installing Windows Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has become evident that after installing\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5003690\" target=\"_blank\">KB5003690<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or later Windows Security updates (including out of band updates,\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5004760\" target=\"_blank\">KB5004760<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5004945\" target=\"_blank\">KB5004945<\/a>), users are having issues printing to certain printers. The issues are primarily found with receipt and label printers that connect via USB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Printers affected include all printers running Windows 10 versions 21H1, 20H2, or 2004 and all printers running Windows Server 20H2 or 2004. Zebra printers have been impacted, as well as other brands and models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows is aware of the issues affecting multiple brands of printers when printing from PCs that have been recently updated via the Windows Update Service (KB5004945, KB5004760, or KB5003690). They have found that the most common symptom is print jobs being sent, but not actually printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue is observed after users install the Windows 10 out-of-band security update KB5004945 (or previous updates, KB5004760 and KB5003690).\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0KB5004945 security update addresses a remote code execution exploit in the Windows Print Spooler service, known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153PrintNightmare,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2021-34527\">documented in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following are the affected Windows 10 versions and their Update KB IDs (build numbers):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Windows 10\/Windows Server version 21H1, 20H2, 2004 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5004945\">KB5004945<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Builds 19041.1083, 19042.1083, and 19043.1083),\u00c2\u00a0including previous updates\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5004760\">KB5004760<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Builds 19041.1082, 19042.1082, and 19043.1082)\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5003690\">KB5003690<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Builds 19041.1081, 19042.1081, and 19043.1081)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the links below to view the steps being taken to address these issues across multiple versions of Windows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Windows<\/th><th>Version<\/th><th>Link<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Windows 10<\/td><td>21H1<\/td><td><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-10-21h1#1647msgdesc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-10-21h1#1647msgdesc<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Windows 10 and Windows Server<\/td><td>20H2<\/td><td><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-10-20h2#1647msgdesc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-10-20h2#1647msgdesc<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Windows 10 and Windows Server<\/td><td>2004<\/td><td><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-10-2004#1647msgdesc\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/release-health\/status-windows-10-2004#1647msgdesc<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Helpful Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/july-6-2021-kb5004945-os-builds-19041-1083-19042-1083-and-19043-1083-out-of-band-44b34928-0a71-4473-aa22-ecf3b83eed0e\"><strong>Microsoft Support<\/strong>: July 6, 2021\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKB5004945 (OS Builds 19041.1083, 19042.1083, and 19043.1083) Out-of-band<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/june-29-2021-kb5004760-os-builds-19041-1082-19042-1082-and-19043-1082-out-of-band-9508f7a2-0713-432f-b06c-1ae6d802a2f7\"><strong>Microsoft Support<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0June 29, 2021\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKB5004760 (OS Builds 19041.1082, 19042.1082, and 19043.1082) Out-of-band<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/topic\/june-21-2021-kb5003690-os-builds-19041-1081-19042-1081-and-19043-1081-preview-11a7581f-2a01-47d5-ba12-431709ee2248\"><strong>Microsoft Support<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0June 21, 2021\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKB5003690 (OS Builds 19041.1081, 19042.1081, and 19043.1081) Preview<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2021-34527\"><strong>Microsoft Security Response Center<\/strong>: Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527)<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslatest.com\/2021\/07\/07\/windows-10-kb5004945-update-released-to-fix-printnightmare\/\"><strong>Windows Latest<\/strong>: Windows 10 KB5004945 emergency update released to fix 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