It shouldn't need web access, although if you are on a network, it may
require network access. The only printers I know of that 'call home' are
HPs, and although HP would probably like all of them to do so, it's
certainly not a necessity as far as the average user is concerned.

> I installed a Lexmark 1300 printer on our Win 2k PC.
> It wouldn't print unless I allowed it to access the Web.
> Zone Alarm caught it.
> I did tell it during the install we would register later. But that
> was not what it wanted to do, there was no window that came up. It
> just said there was a printing error, and to go online in order to
> print.
>
> Anyone know what's up with that?
>
> Suppose the user had no Web access?
>
> Otherwise it works well.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.