What if the printer is offline and cannot print?

Daily life we are often exposed to the printer, especially now the network office of the Young, often in the office work will come into contact with the printer! The printer, is plainly: through a device, the most common to A4 paper as media, the computer text documents or pictures by mechanical transfer on the paper, Make abstract things concrete! Since it is a device, more or less will have such problems, especially the urgent need to use the printer, and the printer is not to force ....

How to print printer offline

The following on our use of the printer maintenance to do a little summary, I hope that users or computer enthusiasts to help! Printer maintenance is divided into hard maintenance and soft maintenance, this paper first talk about soft maintenance!

Title: Printer Display Offline troubleshooting method

Figure 1: Printer offline cannot print

The normal printer is like Figure 1: The picture shows a total of three printers, the leftmost one is the fax machine, which is the system's default printer.

Once the printer is offline, the printer's icon will also turn gray, and the front tick also turns gray (note: The printer set in this article is virtual, but it's the same as a fully installed printer)

If you usually use the printer more friends will notice that the printer can be found in the system is through the print line (the term is called a USB print line) and the printer connection, and then find the appropriate driver, the driver installed, the printer will be found in the system, in order to let you see more clearly, here is the process of installing the printer.

First we get the printer, to the power cord, the USB print line and the computer connection, and then the printer power on (remember to turn on the printer power), this time, the computer will be prompted to find new hardware, as shown in the following image:

Figure 2

Found the new hardware, you download a good printer driver installed, the printer can be normal use! How do you know that the computer is connected to the printer is not normal?

Figure 3: Check if the printer installation is available

In general, we click on the beginning of the computer (this is the Win7 system, XP is similar) → devices and printers, click on the end will appear, as shown in Figure 4:

As shown in Figure 4

If the above 4 pictures appear, then congratulations, your printer can be used normally! See here some readers may be questioned, gee, this article is not to tell the printer offline how to do, how to say the installation up?!

Then again, the above part of the demonstration is to tell the reader, the computer system of the printer is how to install it, you can say, all the printer soft fault can be installed from the printer during a part of the process to find the reason, printer offline is no exception!

It goes without saying that the printer does not print the printer off chance. Printer can not print, that is, the computer system does not have a printer "hardware", since there is no printer, then we must be "new" installation (note here the new double quotation marks are assumed, that is, the problem before the printer has been installed, you can use, but now is offline, not use)!

OK, then we look back at the time to install the printer to prepare what to work: a printer, a USB print line, a printer corresponding to the driver, the printer power to open! If the printer hardware is not a problem, at the same time with the four points, you can be sure that the printer will be able to work normally, Of course, the premise is to make sure your computer system is good, the computer system here is not more mention, haha!

Let's take a step-by-step check:

First, the printer power has not been opened! Now the printer power switch is done more obvious. This does not have to say much;

Second, the USB print line! As the name implies, the USB print line on a line, when the printer is offline, we want to see if the USB print line is broken, peeling, the joints on both sides have no rust, deformation, and so on, if there is any sense of bad print line situation that will have to change a print line;

Third, if you change the print line or not, then only the printer driver from the new installation.

Finally, it is important to note that the printer power lamp panel There is nothing bad flashing flash red and other appearance. In general, through the above three points can be the printer offline problem solved. Of course, most of the time we will not be people! When we've all tried, the methods mentioned above can not solve the problem of printing offline, please do not abandon the trouble, please continue to look down!

As shown in Figure 5

We follow the steps of Figure 1, 2, 3, and 4 into this picture of Figure 5, and then remove the offline printer directly. As shown in Figure 6 (here is a hook-up printer for example).

Figure 6: Deleting an offline printer

After the printer is removed we will click on the properties of my computer (Figure 7) → Device Manager (figure 8) → Search for new hardware (Figure 9) and reinstall the printer driver as shown in the following figure:

Figure 7: Reinstalling the printer driver diagram

Figure 8

Figure 9

If the printer hardware is normal, the print line is normal, the printer power is on, the computer's USB interface is normal (this is easy to judge, in exchange for an interface plug will know that the mouth of the good or bad), then will appear in Figure 2 to find the new hardware icon, the printer driver installed can be normal use! If the above method has been tried or not, it is likely that the printer hardware or computer system failure, printer hardware, computer system left in the post-talk!

Finally add a few words: when you can determine the print line, the computer USB is good, the driver is also correct, but you point out "scan hardware changes", the computer did not prompt to find new hardware, that is basically the printer hardware fault, this can only go to warranty or repair it! O (∩_∩) o haha ~ more points, but hope to really help you!

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