What does the printer go offline mean

For many office users, often encounter the problem of the printer offline, because many of the friends who use the printer is a clerical class, one encountered the printer offline can not print will have no strategy, do not know what the printer offline means. In fact, this problem does not solve the complex, the key is that we should learn to see the state of the printer.

What does a printer go offline mean?

The printer is offline, with the following two cases:

1, if it is local printing is the printer is not open or the line is not connected well;

2. If the network printing is to see whether the local can print, if not, please check the local printing, that is, check the next computer connected with the printer is working properly, the network is disconnected.

In addition there are some users feedback, the printer will often appear offline. For this case, some printers will automatically enter the shutdown condition for a long time without using, then we need to manually start the power, the printer back to the working state.

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Edit summary: To put it bluntly, when the printer appears offline, it means that the printer is offline or disconnected from our computer, which may be the result of a bad connection between the printer and the computer data cable or the printer has been turned off. If you are printing on a network share, you need to check that the computer that is connected to the printer is turned on properly and the network is normal.

If you exclude in 32 cases, then when printing, please choose to use online printing to try, as shown in the following figure:

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