Thank you, this seems to work for me. Much appreciated.
GET /eSCL/ScannerStatus HTTP/1.1The question is how do I stop it.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Anonymous
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!!!!
End.
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Devices and drivers
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
662 answers
Sort by: Most helpful
-
Anonymous
2023-06-22T01:26:26+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-06-10T17:54:01+00:00 Hi Mary, Thank you for your continued efforts in this matter. I am so grateful that someone cares. Turning the printer off did work, but unfortunately for my HP Printer Laser Jet M553 it took almost 2 minutes initializing for it to print.
-
Anonymous
2023-06-09T15:47:17+00:00 I don't know if this will help some people but after you have deleted the printer (and any drivers it will let you uninstall) then when you reinstall it, make sure during set up to install the WiFi option and in the printer settings itself, ensure in All Settings>Network that the Wired LAN>Wired Status option is OFF and in WLAN>WLAN Status is showing an active network and the WLAN Enable is set to ON.
-
Anonymous
2023-06-09T12:08:54+00:00 I've tried all suggestions but nothing worked. I've switched my printer off as I'm wasting too much paper.
I'm now using a wireless printer and that's fine.
-
Anonymous
2023-06-07T13:40:04+00:00 That's a shame! It looks like there is not a one size fits all answer to work around this Windows 11 bug.
It seems like there is a breakdown in the release of a printer after a job is printed. Microsoft clearly changed something but that change disrupted printing. Obviously, I do not know what was in the O/S before Windows 11 printer interface was modified. There have been multiple suggestions that seem to work, for example, on HP printers. I have an annoying but 100% successful workaround on my Epson. All the other suggestions failed for me. And my suggestion failed for you.
From my perspective, a printer does not get reset to ready state after a job is printed. It looks like the printer tells the O/S that it finished a given job and asks if there is another job. If you have another print job, it goes through. But, if there are no more, the printer driver keeps asking for the all clear, as it did in previous versions of the O/S. That release does not come. After some time lapse and repeated requests from the printer driver for the all clear, the error message appears.
For my situation, I merely stop the cycle of requests for the all clear. A job prints fine. I turn off the printer immediately. I need to print. I turn on the printer. It takes a small amount of time but eliminates the failed communication between the printer and the O/S.
Clearly a Microsoft problem. It's been going on for months.