How to fix Offline Printers in Windows (WSD Ports)

Today I do a quick video on how to find the IP address of a WSD port and update your offline printer to use an IP port of that IP address instead. Pretty easy, assuming you can find the IP port successfully. IF you cannot find the IP from the WSD information, then acquire that information from your printer by printing an information page.

Here is the powershell command I ran that shows similar information as the printer preferences.

Get-ChildItem -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\" | Get-ItemProperty | Select-Object PSChildName,Port,Location

Here is another command you could run that shows similar info as well:

Get-ChildItem -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SWD\DAFWSDProvider\" | Where-Object {$_.PSChildName -match "^urn:uuid:[0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}$" }

[Bela-]

After 2 hours I have finally got my printer working. Thank you so much! WSD is a great example of fixing something that aint broke and breaking it.

[dewey]

short and simple and actually solves the problem. thank you very much for your help

[hesterpanim]

Golden, that worked! Now I can sleep better at night and my wife is happier. I have no idea why WSD is in existence. Thank you Mr. GeekHead!

[jpharrold]

Worked like a charm, thanks for making the video!

[LadyAlyseGrandmaGamer]

How did you know we needed this information! ;)

[KURIKAESHI]

Now my printer works....for now :)
thanks man for your help!!

[minimark]

worked for me on a xerox c7000 windows 10. thanks

[comprehab]

HI. Great Video. One question. most printers get the ip address dynamically so should you also reserve the ip address used in the router?

[Winterfell]

This always creates 2 copies of the printer and neither work, so i have to delete them and add as a new printer with the TCP/IP port.

[mijabarry]

It didn't solve the problem -- I did what you told me. But then the computer (the HP app) can't find my printer (and it wouldn't let me add the printer) so it's still not printing

[JustPerusing]

this didn't work for me. will try again later.

[Tangie]

Have no idea how to get there and follow where you are

[Paul-mmdh]

The IP changed. This does not work. Thanks

[gdsped]

thank you so much for the info my guy 🫂🫂