How To Fix When An HP Printer Goes Offline?

“My HP printer is offline, how to fix?”, “Why my HP printer is showing offline?” and “How I can turn my HP printer’ status Online from Offline?” are some most common questions asked by many HP printer users. HP printers are worldwide famous due to their sizes, shapes, print quality, and multi functional functionality. However, they are capable of printing hundreds of high-quality colored as well as black & white prints in an hour but they are not immune to the various printer malfunctioning.

Having a printer error is no more a matter of trouble until you have a reliable HP printer support with you. You can contact them for any kind of HP printer related issues. In this blog, we are providing some very easy tricks to troubleshoot HP printer offline error. The error is a very common issue and can occur due to many technical glitches with your HP printer.

The chances of going an HP printer in the offline state are maximum when there is a faulty power cable or poor wireless connectivity. Sometimes due to a corrupted or outdated printer driver, your HP printer goes offline during a print operation. Once your HP printer goes offline, it is no more able to communicate with your computer and neither you can take print nor you can scan a document.

In a nutshell, all kinds of incoming and outgoing get halted when an HP printer’s status goes offline on your computer. Well, to set the HP printer offline to online, you can try the following simplest fixes:

1. Remove The Faulty Power Cable

If there is a faulty or broken power cable with your HP printer, the printer can go offline during any print operation. This is because the printer’s power supply goes blocked as soon as the defected power cable is shaken for some reason. Hence to obtain the optimum performance of your HP printer and non-stop print operations replace the faulty power cable with newer one.

2. Check Wireless Connectivity

In the case of Wireless Printer, if your network router or modem device is off, your HP wireless printer will not show online in your device. Hence make sure your Wireless network device is on and placed near to your printer. If the device is on and still your printer is showing offline check if the WiFi or Bluetooth status of your Printer on its display is enabled or not. If not then enable it.

3. Set Printer’s Status Online

• Take your cursor to the Start button and click it. Then open the Settings window.
• In the Settings window, select  Devices options, then click Printers and scanners.
• In the list of various printers attached to your device, choose the one you want to currently connect with your computer. Right-click on your printer name.
• In the right-click drop-down menu, choose the top option “see what’s printing”. It will open the Print window.
• Click the Printer button and uncheck the Use printer offline checkbox.
• It will turn your HP printer’s status online.

4. Re-Install Your HP Printer Driver

• After clicking the Start button, type Device Manager in the search box to find the program quickly in your system’s database.
• In the search results, the Device Manager will be at the top. Double click to open the Device Manager window. Scroll the left side list of all connected peripheral devices and find Printers.
• Right-click on Printers and again right-click on HP printer driver, iN the right-click drop-down list select Uninstall.
• Then click OK to confirm your selection.
• Restart your computer and go to the official website of HP and download the latest drives that best matches with your HP printer model. Install the driver by following the on-screen instructions. Again restart your computer.

Now take a test print to check the status of your printer.

5. Restart Your HP Printer Spooler Service

• Press Windows+R keys together. In the Run dialogue box type services.msc in the run command and hit OK. 
• In the Print Spooler services, Click the Start button just below the Service Status.
• Reinstall your printer driver as mentioned above.

As the process will complete your HP printer will be online and you can take any numbers of print you want.

HP printer goes offline is a common printer issue that can be easily resolved by following the above printer offline troubleshooting ways. At any instance of troubleshooting your printer device, you can take help from HP printer help by dialing the toll-free HP printer support phone number. An HP printer expert will immediately answer your call and suggest the most effective HP printer fixes.