A technician is troubleshooting a thermal label printer on a factory floor that suddenly began printing garbled text midway through a print run. The technician questioned the machine operator, noted that a system update was automatically installed on the host workstation overnight, and backed up the local configuration. After swapping the USB cable yielded no change, the technician connected the thermal printer to a known-good test laptop using native drivers. The printer completed multiple test prints perfectly from the test laptop, successfully confirming the theory that the primary workstation's local print driver was corrupted during the overnight update. According to the CompTIA 6-step troubleshooting methodology, which of the following actions should the technician take NEXT?
- Formulate a step-by-step resolution plan to clean-install the certified print driver on the workstation, then execute the installation.Cevap
- BRun a full batch test job of 50 labels on the workstation and instruct the operator on how to clear spooler queues to prevent future freezes.
- CReplace the thermal printhead assembly under the assumption that its internal heating elements are failing under sustained load.
- DLog the root cause, driver version details, and resolution summary in the central ticketing system knowledge base.