Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Strikes Again With A Bizarre Printer Bug
If your office printer has suddenly gone on strike after this week's updates, you aren't alone, and the culprit is surprisingly strange. Microsoft's latest round of security updates has introduced a rather eccentric quirk to the Windows printing stack. Following the rollout of the November 2026 security patches, users across a wide array of client and server operating systems, including Windows 11, Windows 10, and various Windows Server iterations, have run into a wall when trying to print specific documents.
The common denominator is zero-dimension images. According to Microsoft's official support documentation, document printing may completely fail via the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) if the file contains images rendered with a height or width value of zero at the selected print resolution.
At first glance, the bug sounds easy enough to avoid; just don't put weird invisible zero-width or zero-height images in your documents, right? But obviously, users almost...
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