A typical thread

If it is still a supported product, you should contact the manufacturer for a fix. Period.

They don't have one. Oh well, I'm not going to custom write some firmware for it.

The cost of your business being down because of a critical vulnerability with an active threat must be pretty low, then.

The cost of my business from copiers blocked off from the outside internet giving issue to my single printer server blocked off from the internet is pretty low.

Don't blame the rest of us because you got into a bad contract.

There is no good printer lease contract. They're all long as hell and no contract is going to let you swap out older models with newer models without paying more.

Doing things the right way is almost always cheaper, otherwise nobody would do it. You either must have really shitty management, or be doing a bad job of proving it.

We do do things the right way, but if you get off your high horse not all of us have the cash to throw around to replace everything at the first sign of something minor coming up. Do you not have legacy systems? Also there is no one "right way" you have to find the way that works best for the business, IT exists to serve the business, and trying to save IT costs but damn the work flow is not the way to do it.

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