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The software giantadvises: Our investigations indicate that this issue is not resulting from an HP update.
Printers on the equipment will continue to use the expected drivers for printer operations.
However, this issue might affect associations with other manufacturer-supplied printer apps used to extend basic printer capabilities.
If this is the case, some or all of those extended functions might not work.
Microsoft tells us a further investigation is underway and that itll update us when new info is available.
Analysis: Metadata mix-up?
Whats going on here?
What about the HP Smart app being installed on PCs where a printer isnt even connected?
Presumably this is happening to some other folks without a printer, too.