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