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Old May 20, 2021 | 8:30 pm
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StuckInYYZ
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...f-727e4978638b

I'd say the odds are very good that any printer you select will be able to do basic printing without the need for downloading or installing any drivers.
If the printer drivers (universal or not) are included in the initial image. Many corporate IT teams strip down/dictate to the manufacturer the image they use on their laptops. This is to save space but also control the attack surface on any device attached to their network. For home-based systems, some of the smaller manufactuers (as an example) strip out non-native language packs from their image (If you look at the chinese manufacturers, they often strip out all the language packs except for chinese and sometimes english).

If it's the legit base image from MS, then chances are it will have it. But corporate images (if the company is large enough) are a different beast.
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