Part of the reason why I said that is because what if the vendor slips in a firmware update disguised as a print driver? Unless the print driver is crashing, causing the machine to roll over and die, or cause the printer to print out messages from [insert evil deity here], use the version that does what you want it to do.
I’m all for security updates; but it’s a device driver; the only thing it ought to be doing is rendering your print job into something the printer understands, and feeding that data to the printer. (maybe getting status updates back from the printer is nice as well, but then I’m kind old fashioned like that.)
