in reply to Printer Spewing Reams of Garbage
indicates that someone is (probably) using the LWP::UserAgent module to construct a web robot. See User_agent for the meaning (and lack of meaning) of that string.User-Agent: libwww-perl/6.15
Is the Host IP your printer?
My best guess is that either a) someone on your network is printing results from a GET accidentally or without thinking, or b) your printer has some HTTP-based protocol for initiating printing that is getting abused. The random character and mostly blank thing is most likely since they are printing the binary of a gziped file.
#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.
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