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