Alternatively you can fix printer offline issue by installing windows 10 update.
Print server offline windows 10.
3 if you can t see its status here right click print spooler service and click start.
If you have tried to print a document in windows 10 you know that it won t print unless the printer is online.
After the polling loop is registered windows queries the print server periodically to check whether it is back online.
I could ping the printers so it wasn t that smnp was being blocked.
Quick one here which i thought was notable.
Unfortunately this doesn t happen all the time.
Then select your printer open queue.
In rare cases a client thread that has a restricted token detects that a print server is offline.
Kb3147458 windows 10 only.
Under printer make sure use printer offline is not selected.
Posted on june 15 2016 june 15 2016 by adam fowler.
Here are a couple of things to look for.
Type services msc in the search box and press enter.
Navigate to control panel and devices and printers.
If these steps don t put your printer back online then read troubleshooting offline printer problems.
Microsoft released kb3147458 update exclusively for windows 10 users only.
Printer goes offline due to a windows setting it is entirely possible that a windows 10 setting is interrupting the printer and stopping it working correctly.
Printers showing offline with print server.
Select start settings devices printers scanners.
2 on your keyboard press the p key to faster locate print spooler item.
They worked perfectly fine though.
See if its status is running.
I had an issue where printer queues on windows server 2012 were showing as offline.
In this situation windows registers a polling loop to check the status of the print server.