GET /eSCL/ScannerStatus HTTP/1.1The question is how do I stop it.

Well, I have a couple of ideas for you, especially since you have an Epson printer. Early on in this nightmare, I checked the print queue and found about 15 old print jobs that had been done successfully just sitting in the queue. I was getting a different error but I wonder if you might have the same problem.

Clearly, Microsoft Windows 11 is not communicating properly with printers.

The other thing I noticed in your posting was that you referred to your printer in "standby" mode. That does not work at all.

So, try this. Go to the Control Panel and check that your print queue is empty. Clear out any documents that might be there. Return the printer to "Home". Turn the printer OFF. Reboot your pc.

Now for the test. Power up your pc. Don't touch the printer. Select a test document. Now turn your printer on. Release your document to print. There may be a slight delay but your document should print.

Now check OK on the keypad of the printer and turn the printer OFF once the home screen displays on the printer. Do that immediately. Don't let any time pass.

Wait 10 minutes or so. Leave your pc on. Now get another document or the same one, turn on the printer and print the document. This sequence is the only sequence that works for me: you must turn your printer OFF, not leave it in standby mode after you finish printing anything. You can print several documents in a row but if more than a couple of minutes pass before you want to print again, you will get that error message.

When you turn off your pc at the end of the day, make sure you turn off the printer too.

It's a pain but it's the only way I could get rid of that error message. Windows 11 is not releasing the printer correctly.

Thanks Mary

Mine seems to start doing this as soon as I turn on the computer in the morning or bring it back from standby.

I haven't even tried to print anything at all it just starts printing the message "GET /ESCL/ScannerStatus HTTP/1.1" 3 or 4 times and uses up 3 or 4 sheets of paper in the process. I must have wasted 10 sheets of paper today, its ridiculous.

I don't want to have to keep turning the printer off - Microsoft need to fix the bug in their win 11 update that caused this.

The one thing that works for me is to press the ✓ (OK does this) on the printer screen and then turn off the printer completely. Just clearing the ✓ doesn't work. You have to turn off the printer.

If you are printing several items one after another, you do not have to turn off your printer. That sequential printing is fine.

It appears to me that, after a print job is completed and there are no more print jobs in the queue, Windows is not informing the printer that the print queue is empty and telling the printer to go back to its idle state. It seems as if the printer is saying "I'm here, where's my next job?" In other words, the printer is waiting for the next job and after a period of time, it sends that error message. Windows has not "closed" the print queue or whatever action is needed to have the printer return to idle state rather than waiting.

That is evidenced by the printer, after your last print job, making odd noises. My theory is that, getting no response from the operating system, it tries to print but there is nothing in the queue. It keeps at that for a while and then prints the error message.

It's definitely a Microsoft problem since it seems to affect a large number of different printers.

I have the same issue here too - my Epson XP-900 printer keeps printing this GET /ESCL/ScannerStatus HTTP/1.1 message every time I turn my PC on pretty much every time I wake it up from sleep. It is such a waste of paper and ink and from a search on Google is clearly happening to a lot of people and a lot of different types of printers.
Mine only started doing this since my PC did an upgrade to windows 11 it is clearly a MS Win issue.

I have done all the suggested fixes, I cant run on wireless so it must be USB connected.

Come on Microsoft - fix the bug now and save the wasted paper ---> think of all the trees that have been lost because of this and get on with it!

I have the same problem with my Epsom. My daughter has the same problem at the university where she teaches. They have four different printer manufacturer types. All have the exact same problem and tech support has to restart their nodes on the network daily to get anything to print. And they are using twice the amount of paper as usual because of the error message.

My one workaround is to shut off the printer IMMEDIATELY after I have printed something. If you wait even 5 or 10 minutes, the printer starts making odd noises like it thinks it should print, then stops, starts making noises and then finally prints the two line error message at the top of a page.

At that point, I have reboot my pc.

This is a Windows 11 error. I have reinstalled the drivers, run diagnostics, you name it. My printer is fine as far as Epson is concerned but printing is a problem.