I have bouts of HP driver weirdness on random printers at my facility. Almost all in the newer models. The 4000s and other vintage ones run fine.
A lot of people at my place of employment know me as the guy who hates printers. I don’t have a lot of love for the 170 XIII Zebras either but they don’t flake out anywhere near as much.
I will not have another HP anything personally.
For home I have a BW Brother printer scanner and my wife inherited my 7 or 8 year old Epson 595 that is still going strong. When it dies or the ink just gets unreal (which isn’t that far off), I will get a color laser. It won’t be an HP.
Amen to the Brother products, thats where Im at too.
HP also loads their driver software( at least used to) with malicious mal-ware that gets dumped all over your OS when you try to load drivers to fix their garbage printers / scanners. Good luck getting rid of it.
I bought my Lexmark Optra laser printer in the summer of 2000. It still runs perfectly. Both Win 7 and Macintosh found and loaded drivers instantly.