Grab your Epson firmly by each side, walk to the nearest open window and heave it as far as you can. Your welcome.
HP Printers are the worst concerning destroying router security. Unless I need to use a printer it is ALWAYS powered off.
Monochrome (black & white) lasers are pretty cheap and you don’t have the mess of liquid ink and dried up nozzles.
Color lasers are also pretty cheap.
I gave up on inkjets nearly 2 decades ago. My first monochrome laser cost $200 and my first color laser cost $150. I still use the color laser, even though it is about 12 years old. I print very little; thus, the cartridges last a long time. I finally had to replace the ‘black’ cartridge about a year ago.
Why would your printer need your router’s id?
Used to like Epson ‘till I needed Win8 drivers for my flatbed scanner. Couldn’t find them on line so I contacted Epson and they said they were not providing win8 drivers for that scanner. Said they’d provide me a discount on a new device.....no more Epson for me thanks.
Is it a WiFi printer or hooked via cable to the PC?
I found it cheaper and more convenient to go with laser printers once I decided I had no reason to have to print color - by the time I go through my second toner, the printer is ready to be replaced and they are so cheap these days that if one goes through a high-capacity toner, it is cheaper to buy a new laser printer than it would be to buy all the ink for the ink-jet types.
Yes, printers can be intrusive and that sucks.
But your problem is with your router.
The password for my router is l-o-n-g with a crazy mix of letters, upper and lower, symbols, numbers, etc., and there is no app available that can break it within the hacker’s life time.
Plug in a Raspberry Pi or a Beaglebone Black into your computer and they will phone home even over a USB connection.
I’ve been running a cheap HP laser printer for nearly 20 years with no problems. Worked in quite a few offices and never saw a real router with a firewall cracked by a printer. That’s pretty funny. ;D
Maybe the headline should have been Ink Printer on Crack. ;)
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Unless you have some need to print in colors, buy a cheap and reliable black/white printer from Samsung or Brother and print quickly and cheaply for years.
Color printers are the manufacturers way of getting rich selling ink.
Just wait until you find out that your neighbor watches your baby monitor and your video doorbell feeds and controls your refrigerator. He also occasionally taps into your ApplePay account and your Hulu and Netflix subscriptions.
I think ALL PRINTERS ARE EVIL.
Started 20 years ago with a Canon printer over $500, could not get it to work, called customer service repeatedly, finally was told I called too much and needed to buy a $500 warranty for them to talk to me - Never anything Canon again.
Bought a Sharp copier, the cartridge wouldn’t set right $250/stop charge for them to come and look at it.
Bought a color laser Brother to print postcards, it gets too hot and the postcards come out curved and have to be straightened to print other side.
Just bought Epson, the ink is gone in no time.
I HATE PRINTERS!
That might be on account of the infamous yellow dots. Apparently most laser printers put a unique pattern of next-to-invisible yellow dots on your documents so that law enforcement can identify which printer any given document come from. (Apparently that's how Reality Winner was identified as having leaked classified information.)
The result is that if your printer runs out of yellow ink, it won't print, even though you only want to print black-and-white documents. Then, to disguise the fact that yellow ink is key, they make the printer so that it won't print if you run out of any color.
I am not a printer expert, but this is what I gather from reading.
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This makes no sense. A printer is just a device that would be on your network. To join the network you’d have to tell it which ssid, and the network password at a minimum.
If you can join the network, any device type, without doing that your router is not configured correctly.
If you are using that WPS (press a button the router) to allow a device to join then who knows. I never use WPS.