I have no experience in what you are doing. I am trying to understand the process. I am guessing that you use WinPE to carry out bullet points 2 - 5....
I have an older Brother MFC-7360N that works without any issues. I got it on sale for $99 at Staples online store. As a multifunction device it scans...
Security stuff requires constant reading. Daily. For current things, I have some RSS feeds and I'm a member of 3 local defcon groups. They use email...