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My printer is prompted to print this at the top of pages, usually from drawer #2 which is envelopes. I have an Epson WF-4740. The information on line indicates that this is an across the board problem. I have contacted Epson and they say it is a Microsoft problem. To date I have tried every suggested fix but nothing stops it. Extremely frustrating!!!!
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Marco,
You are correct. It was still in the registry about 7 times in mine. I deleted all instances, restarted and crossed my fingers, Spun around on my left foot and threw salt over my shoulder for good measure. Hopefully, your suggestion will work, too!
********This worked for me*********
Deleting "HP Print Scan Doctor" from my registry, its in different locations and i deleted all instances.
*** Be careful editing your Registry you can brake your machine***
How to: Right click on the windows START button click on RUN in the run window type " regedit " no quotes. That will bring up your Registry Editor click on EDIT click on FIND and search for " HP Print " no quotes make sure it is the folder that contains HP Print Scan Doctor and delete it. Go back to EDIT now click FIND NEXT and I deleted all folders that had it in my registry had to do it 4 or 5 times. No more random pages printing yahoo!!!
Good Luck
Exactly! But even more troublesome is if you are working on your pc and there is more than 5 minutes or so after you've printed something, the error condition is in the print queue. If you wait a while longer, it actually prints. If you print after, say 5-10 minutes, the error is the first line of your printout.
You can't win in any direction...
This is a real issue and requires a fix ASAP. When computer is awaken the printer prints the following:
Get/eSCL/ScannerStatus HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost
Jim Farrington,
Well, my solution used last night only worked last night. About an hour after I posted my solution to delete HPPSD from the system, it began printing the pages again so it worked for someone else and not me unless they haven't gotten back on here to notify the rest of us. I tested mine for roughly 8.5 hours before posting.
I am not Catholic, but I am willing to convert at this point to save the ink and paper! The cartridges for this laser printer are $375 each! I came in this a.m. and plugged in and it immediately spat out 2 pages full of this nonsense code then when I went to print a real page, it printed the nonsense one page before and one page after. Nothing new, but just frustrating. I have 3 paper trays on this laser and I know which one it pulls from. I insert one of the pages back in and let it print on that same page front/back/upside down multiple times before I discard the page, but I miss it a lot of the time in a rush during the day so it wastes more paper. It is obviously something MS is doing because it is across multiple brands of printers.
if you have an "in" at the Vatican, let me know and I will sign up to get mine exorcised while the bishop/exorcist is here stateside. 😒
