The line: 
User-Agent: libwww-perl/6.15

[download]
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.

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.

In reply to Re: Printer Spewing Reams of Garbage by kennethk
in thread Printer Spewing Reams of Garbage by ArcherBowman

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