How to turn printer from offline to online

flexianswers
3 min readMar 2, 2021

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Printer is an output device which is basically now and important element of technology which can be found everywhere home institution various workplaces etc. where they are used for various purposes like printing scanning photocopy and many more printers have now been used as they are very easy to use are compact portable and can provide solutions to various problems within few minutes. As technology is emerging there are various changes made in printer due to which they are becoming from better to best. Different printer companies a trying to manufacture the best printers so that they can satisfy the needs and requirements of the customers and the users as well as they try to create and develop new functions in the printer to make its working as easy as possible.

When a person use printers there can be various problems through which they can go from and one of the problem is turning printer from offline to online.

Steps to how to turn printer from offline to online

1.checking the cable connection

Make sure that both the power cables are attached properly that is from printer to the switch board.

As well as also check that the printer and the computer are connected properly and there is no issue in the connecting cable.

2. setting the printer “online” manually

For this open the devices and printer tab by going to the control panel of your computer.

Select your respective printer and tap on “see what’s printing”.

Once the window opens choose “printer”

Which is there in the menu bar from the above tab.

Tap on use printer online from the given menu.

Cleaning your printing jobs

Sometimes due to the overburden of printing jobs the printer may create problem in the printing so you must definitely clean your printing job by going to the device and printer section of your computer selecting your respective .

Selecting on sees what printing and cancelling on all the jobs given.

By this the error main resolve.

Re-installing the printer driver

You must definitely be install or update the printer driver which is in your device as sometimes it may get expired or outdated with time due to which the printer may not go online. You can update reinstall your printer driver by inserting the CD-ROM or by downloading the new software from the computer and following all the installation steps which are given by which there can be successful working of printer driver in

Your device.

The another option for bringing the printer from offline to online is

Open the settings and go to the printer section of a device.

Right tap on printer and choose use printer online. And clean all the print jobs that are there.

By doing this if any error is there in the printer it will also get solved and restart it by giving the order once again.

By following the above steps you can easily resolve the problem but if you still continue the phase the problem you must definitely contact the customer care or helper of the respective printer as they will provide you the professional experts or technicians which will help you out and solving this issue.

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