You see, folks are saying their HP Smart app is displaying the “ Printer status unknown ” error, suggesting the app is not able to communicate with the printer.

Error 83C0000B on your HP printer is likely caused due to a firmware update. Here are working solutions to help you fix this error in a few steps.

If you’ve ever seen your HP printer display the dreaded “Non-HP Circuitry Detected” warning, you’re not alone. This happens when the printer detects third-party or refilled cartridges, and ...

Since about the second week of May, the HP support forums have been rife with complaints of OfficeJet printers bricking after they automatically installed the company’s most recent firmware update.

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.

HP is working to address a bad firmware update that has been bricking HP Office Jet printers worldwide since it was released earlier this month.

Fast forward to today, and HP has admitted that the error was programmed into their firmware, to stop customers from using third party ink cartridges.

How to fix the HP printing problem You can temporarily remedy the printing problem by deleting your printer and then setting it up again with a generic printer driver.