Disabling Printer Scanning

By Dan Aukes
These don't seem to fix my problem currently. Use with care.

derived from here

Stop the Service

sudo systemctl status cups-browsed.service 
sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed.service 
sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed.service

Disable from .conf

this may be slightly older advice. You can edit the configuration file

In /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, set directive:

Set the directive

BrowseProtocols none