FrizzleFry
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I have an Asus RT68U, and I have a brother HL-2270DW printer connected to it via the USB2 port. I have used the Asus utility to connect a couple of computers on the network to the printer, and it works ok with two exceptions:
- occasionally, part of the way through the print job it will just start printing a crapload of pages with one line of garbage characters at the top, have to unplug the printer to prevent it from wasting a bunch of paper. Then I have to reset the router to get it to print normally again, which it does, until the next time some random time later.
- occasionally, when I print something nothing happens. I can see the words 'use printer offline' at the top of the windows print queue box, so windows sees the printer as offline instead of asleep. The only way to get it to print at this point is to reset the router, either via unplugging & plugging back in, or clicking reboot via the web interface, which takes some time. I have tried re-plugging the printer instead, it makes no difference.
In both cases time seems to be a factor. The longer it has been since a router reset the more likely it is to print garbage or not at all. I've sort of got into the habit of just resetting right before I want to print something.
This issue could be in the stock firmware as well, but I haven't tried it, have been on Merlin since I bought the router. I did a search here on the keyword 'print' but didn't see anything obvious, so I guess it could just be my setup, lucky me.
- occasionally, part of the way through the print job it will just start printing a crapload of pages with one line of garbage characters at the top, have to unplug the printer to prevent it from wasting a bunch of paper. Then I have to reset the router to get it to print normally again, which it does, until the next time some random time later.
- occasionally, when I print something nothing happens. I can see the words 'use printer offline' at the top of the windows print queue box, so windows sees the printer as offline instead of asleep. The only way to get it to print at this point is to reset the router, either via unplugging & plugging back in, or clicking reboot via the web interface, which takes some time. I have tried re-plugging the printer instead, it makes no difference.
In both cases time seems to be a factor. The longer it has been since a router reset the more likely it is to print garbage or not at all. I've sort of got into the habit of just resetting right before I want to print something.
This issue could be in the stock firmware as well, but I haven't tried it, have been on Merlin since I bought the router. I did a search here on the keyword 'print' but didn't see anything obvious, so I guess it could just be my setup, lucky me.
