How to Get Your Printer Online

In this tutorial we will guide you on how to get your printer online.

Learn how through the Printer tab you can go and check if the printer that you have connected is ready for use or not. This is a fairly easy process.

There may be times when your printer is connected, and it's on, but for some reason when you check the printer status, in the devices and printers window, it appears offline and won't print any documents.

To understand how to check if your printer is online follow the steps given below.

Step 1 -- Select the "see what's printing" option

To resolve this issue, right click on your printer and click on the "see what's printing" option.

Step 2 -- Alter the Printer tab options if needed

As a result, the printer status window will open up. Over here, move to the Printer tab and make sure that the Pause Printing option and the Use Printer Offline option both are unchecked.

Step 3 -- Refresh the window

After that, close the printer status window and refresh the window. Now your printer is online and ready to use.

Step 4 -- Print documents

Now let's hover the cursor over the printer icon, and there you can see that the printer is now online and ready for printing.

Now you can go ahead and print your documents. From this tutorial above you can learn how to get your printer online.

[howtechpc]

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[spenzas]

10 years later your tips are still helpful 🤗

[CupcaikPrincess]

Printer is still offline and still won't print.

[PeterC]

Nice presentation... if only it actually worked.

[OfficialMcMrChip]

Despite all of the other comments saying that this wouldn't work, in a shock series of events, my printer is now online and ready to print thanks to this video. Clear and easy to follow. Thanks!

[derrickmorrison]

I was amazed that this worked for me! I had been trying all day to get my wireless printer to work. After all of these many years as a copier printer tech, I learned something new today.

[fourtyfour_ones]

I’m pleasantly surprised this worked! I couldn’t print from my laptop for months and this was the solution-

[Miss_AriStarry]

I tried several videos and nothing work. This video helped me print my resume for my interview. Thank you so much!

[LeeHarveySnoswald]

ATTENTION if you have a HP wireless 4500 then your problem might be that your printer is not connected, go to the wrench button, go to wireless menu, then the wireless setup wizard, that was my problem because we had recently changed our router. Hope this works for some of you.

[timwsullivan]

I did exactly what you explained..and it still says offline and won't print

[MrSinik]

first time i got my Cannon wireless, printing wirelessly since i bought it ....Thank You !

[diabloogre]

I am giving you thumbs up because its good instructions. The people having issues probably didn't restart their computer or laptop.

[yvonnedominguez]

I was about to break my computer seriously! Thank you i have never been happier to hear the sound of a printer ❤❤❤❤

[michaelmontes]

mine says its offline in parenthesis but the "use printer offline option and pause printing option " are both unchecked and still doesn't print.

[danishiqbalhashmi]

Thanks man, i have been reinstalling it all over again and again since last 2 days.

[itsliterallyericka]

Here I am in 2019 and this helped me get my printer online! :)

[sonnyc]

mine still doesnt work...i recently moved to another location i connected it to the new router where i am and it says it connected but in this window you just showed it says not connected and it wont let me print anything...the router is upstairs and im downstairs pretty much opposite ends of the house could this be a factor? i beleive ive done eveyrthing so far i could have

[hende]

if you have done what is stated in the video and have a wireless printer, make sure the computer and printer are ON THE SAME WIRELESS NETWORK.

[Duckminifarm]

When there are more thumbs-down to thumbs-up in a video, that tells you something. This information is repeated all over the internet, but apparently the REAL trick to getting a balky printer online is some deep, dark state secret that only a select few in authority know....and they're not telling. I have to reinstall the driver every time I want to use my printer.

[boringisboring]

Why do all the videos online I find never help?