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How To Stop Brother MFC-L8900CDW Printing Unwanted Logs/Reports?
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[QUOTE="INFERNO63, post: 226962, member: 23557"] I hope I can help someone. I contacted Brother customer support about this issue because it was wasting so much paper printing scan logs. This is the fix I copied out of chat to fix that issue. Erik: Thank you for contacting Brother. This is Erik and I will be helping you. Please give me a moment to review the information that you provided. ME: how do i stop my printer from printing scan logs? It just eats paper. Erik: Thank you for holding, Susan. I hope that you are having a good day so far. I see you need assistance with your , about the scan log. Is that correct? ME: Yes. I want to stop the scan logs that print. I don't want to disable scanning. I just don't want scan logs to print and waste paper Erik: I'm sorry that you're having this issue, I will do my best to help you. Erik: Can you please describe any troubleshooting steps that you have completed before contacting us? ME: I look for answers in the manual and I google searched it. Erik: I understand, thank you. Erik: What is it specifically saying those printed pages about the scan? ME: it is just a printed scan log showing scanning activity. ME: GET/eSCL/Scannerstatus HTTP/1.1 Host: local host ME: it just repeats that same line over and over depending on how many scans I have done. It is just a log that prints once or twice a day automatically without me asking for it. Erik: Thanks for letting me know. Erik: Are you using a Windows computer? ME: yes, windows 11 Erik: Great. Let's try some steps together regarding this issue. Erik: Please, follow these steps on your computer: ME: I checked for preferences in printer settings to disable this report and nothing available. Erik: This is a software issue from the computer. Erik: Follow these steps on the computer: 1. Open Settings. 2. Click Bluetooth & Devices. 3. Click Printers & scanners. ME: got ME: it Erik: Scroll down until you get to the "Related settings" category. Click Print server properties. Erik: Click the Advanced tab. ME: ok Erik: Remove the check from Show informational notifications for local printers. Erik: Erik: Click Apply → OK. ME: got it Type your message here, then click Send or press <Enter> Erik: The message shouldn't appear again. Erik: On the pages. ME: so i won't get a print out of this scan log anymore? Erik: It shouldn't, however, since this is a Microsoft-related issue, if the issue comes back again, we recommend that you report the problem to Microsoft to assist them in providing a possible solution. Erik: I'm sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. ME: thank you. I hope it works. Type your message here, then click Send or press <Enter> Attach File [/QUOTE]
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