The printer company is called Procolored.

Also it’s for a UV printer, not an inkjet or laser printer, with the cheapest option on their website being $1900 and the average being around $6000. So, not a regular printer you would buy off the shelf. It’s still bad of course, but only so many people even could be impacted by it.

Wow it’s not HP.

The fact they're still trying to blame "Chinese language" after presumably being provided with receipts?

Except you don't need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.

In that case it wouldn’t be news.

Can you please add the company name in the title? If you want to keep original title, you can do it like this:

This printer company [Procolored]

Looks like the printer company did not have antivirus on their systems.

Why would anyone use the software? Aren't modern printers plug and play?

Plug and auto install drivers and play

Good to see there are still viruses in the wild, I was beginning to think those kinda became some ancient forgotten form of art. [I mean proper viruses, not malware in general]

It was a false positive.

Edit: I can't believe this needed a /s

It was not

That's almost worse. Because then you'll be more inclined to trust them.

... c/whoosh?

No this is an example where sarcasm and stupidity can't be distinguished via text alone.

Would have thought it was an obvious play on the headline, but I accept that sheer stupidity does exist.

Yeah unfortunately

That’s possible, but they aren’t really typical office printers either, it’s for specialized art printing. Again it’s definitely bad, this just isn’t typical office equipment.

Yeah, I would expect a printer I paid 6k for to not have malware!