NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Unwanted printing
I get 3 pages printed each week. HP 5200 wireless printer did NOT print this out when connected to previous ASUS wifi router. Problem started with installation of ORBI RB50. How do I stop this usel...
Have experienced the same unwanted printing. Did not even eject the page from my Epson ET-2650.
I have RBR50 with Netgear Armor (Bitdefender) activated. I would think a better solution exists or fix for Armor than simply deactivating it as some have. This has occured twice so far the last several weeks. Did not have this problem before.
Printed without ejecting the paper:
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
HOST: <my ip of my printer>:9100
User Agent: curl/7.59.0
Accept: */*
OPTIONS * RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 1
User-Agent: curl/7.59.0
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host:<my ip>:9100
User Agent: curl/7.59.0
I think we all would agree that the preferred solution is for Netgear to "fix the software". Until they do, however, there appear to be two solutions: (a) waste some paper once a week, or (b) deactivate Armor.
There is probably a lot more discussion on this topic over on the Armor forum: https://community.netgear.com/t5/NETGEAR-Armor/bd-p/en-home-armor I did not activate Armor, so I do not regularly look at that forum.
I just posted this, and very soon after found the "UNWANTED PRINTING" topic
I installed my Orbi RBR20 system late last year, and generally like it. No issues, but since moving to the ORBI with 2 satelites there have been multiple ocassions where both of the printers in my network print three single-page copies as follows:
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.12:9100
User-Agent: curl/7.59.0
Accept: */*
The remainder of each page is blank. The two printers are:
1, an HP laserjet connected to an ORBI satelite using its RJ-45 port and Cat 6 cable; and
2. a Canon MCF color laser printer connected to the Base Station using its RJ-45 port and Cat 6 cable
This never happened until after I started using the ORBI components. I used an Apple Airport Extreme previously.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? If yes, were you able to stop it from happening? Thanks, Steven
At least I am not imagining it! Has anyone figured out what to do other than ask Netgear to address it? Thanks, Steven
All I can say is that I had this issue with my Orbi RBK53 (1 Router, 2 Sat) setup and HP color laserjet but it went away after a printer firmware upgrade. Also running latest version on the Orbi system.
Also as a suggested work around until Armor is fixed, use other alternative means to connect to the printer. USB or Ethernet maybe available on these printers.
Please continue to post over in the Armor forums.
Thank you.
Reading through the threads about this odd problem it seems to me that this issue happens most on the ORBI system? Does anyone else agree?
