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