https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Office-Printers/SOLVED-Canon-Network-Printer-Always-Put-Into-Paused-Or-Sleep/m-p/179367#M4639 <P>I own a Canon MF229DW and a Netgear Nighthawk X6 AC3200 router.&nbsp; I set up my network printer but it was constantly put into 'Paused' mode and I couldn't figure out why.&nbsp; I looked online and found that other people were having the same problem but nobody had an answer or explanation.&nbsp; After days of experiments I discovered that the problem wasn't my Canon printer but was instead a setting in my Netgear router.&nbsp; The router didn't correctly recognize my printer as such.&nbsp; I fixed this by downloading Netgear Genie, going to the Network Map page and setting my printer to "Printer" instead of "Unknown Device".&nbsp; That solved the problem for good.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you would like step by step instructions with screenshots I made a page to walk you through the fix here.&nbsp; This took me days to figure out so I hope it helps someone else!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://www.coretreeservice.com/network_printer_always_paused.htm" target="_self">How To Fix Your Canon Network Printer If It Is Always In Paused Or Sleep Mode.</A></P> Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:36:08 GMT COREtree 2016-07-15T04:36:08Z https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Office-Printers/SOLVED-Canon-Network-Printer-Always-Put-Into-Paused-Or-Sleep/m-p/179367#M4639 <P>I own a Canon MF229DW and a Netgear Nighthawk X6 AC3200 router.&nbsp; I set up my network printer but it was constantly put into 'Paused' mode and I couldn't figure out why.&nbsp; I looked online and found that other people were having the same problem but nobody had an answer or explanation.&nbsp; After days of experiments I discovered that the problem wasn't my Canon printer but was instead a setting in my Netgear router.&nbsp; The router didn't correctly recognize my printer as such.&nbsp; I fixed this by downloading Netgear Genie, going to the Network Map page and setting my printer to "Printer" instead of "Unknown Device".&nbsp; That solved the problem for good.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you would like step by step instructions with screenshots I made a page to walk you through the fix here.&nbsp; This took me days to figure out so I hope it helps someone else!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="http://www.coretreeservice.com/network_printer_always_paused.htm" target="_self">How To Fix Your Canon Network Printer If It Is Always In Paused Or Sleep Mode.</A></P> Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:36:08 GMT https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Office-Printers/SOLVED-Canon-Network-Printer-Always-Put-Into-Paused-Or-Sleep/m-p/179367#M4639 COREtree 2016-07-15T04:36:08Z