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