How to Upgrade Firmware on a Printer From a Computer. Most computer peripherals, including printers, contain an on-board chip that stores a small program that governs basic device functionality.

Following a software update, some HP printers won't print unless HP ink cartridges are used.

A mid-May firmware update is causing some HP printers to enter a blue-screen mode, with no way of resolving the issue on the user side—and no patch incoming yet from HP.

Hewlett Packard has released a firmware update to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in some laser printers.