How do I make my printer not offline

[Fire0nIce228 1]

Okay so I read the manual and figured someone on here can tell me how to make my printer work that suddenly stopped. I go to control panel and its in there and installed but says its offline. Theres no where I can see to click to make it online. Printer has worked good for months and months with no problems, suddenly everything stops printing and just sits in the que.

[DCott 0]

mine says "offline" when I unplg it, but I'm sure you already checked that ;)

[Fire0nIce228 1]

LOL nono , thats all good its all plugged up. It lights up and makes some noises when its first turned on but after that, nothing.

[DamnLocust 0]

When it says the printer is offline, it basically means it's not getting any signal from the printer.

is it a USB printer? if so try plugging it into another USB port and also making sure the wire is secure in the back of the printer. Try restarting the computer, too.

same goes for connection wires on any other type of printer, but you've only got one port to work with.

[dalebert 8]

If worse comes to worse try re-installing the printer. Again worst case scenario as this can be somewhat time consuming.

[Krev 86]

Re-start the computer. 9/10 times that fixes it.

[Lufria 1]

when you print the file, right click the printer spool icon (the tiny icon next to your clock on the bottom right hand of the screen) and open the printer spool screen.

In that screen, click printer, then uncheck "use printer offline." this should put the printer back online, and you should be able to resume printing.

If that doesn't work, or when you put the printer back online and it simply gives you an error, you most likely need to reinstall the driver that is the USB connection drivers for the printer. Find your printer disk and reinstall the printer.

If you need anythign else, feel free to PM me.