(11-18-2020, 02:46 PM)techkey02 Wrote: Delete All The Print Jobs and Re-set up The Brother Printer And Fix Brother Printer Keeps Going Offline
Another solution to cope with Brother printer says offline is the cancelation of all print jobs dispatched to the printer, after which the uninstallation of the printer. Now, observe the under-cited steps and deal with the Brother printer offline issue in a couple of minutes.
- Start your tool and open the ‘Control Panel’ and select the tab of ‘All Control Panel Items’
- Open the ‘Devices and Printers’ and drop down the choice ‘Printer’
- Hit the button of ‘Cancel All Documents’ and pass returned to the folder and right-click on the name of the printer
- Select the option of ‘Remove the tool’ and go away the manner till the Brother printer uninstalls
- Now, the Brother printer returns to the computer manually by way of coming into the appropriate IP deal with the Brother printer.
- After canceling the pending print jobs and reinstalling the Brother printer software program by following the aforementioned steps, in case your Brother printer says offline,
brother printer keeps going offline,
If your installed Brother printer is appearing offline and you are unable to print from it, you first need to set it to online mode. There are specific printer settings that you can try to adjust to fix the problem when your brother printer going offline time and again.
Following let’s check out these printers settings that can work as double-dealing to get your offline brother printer back online. Try using all of these ones by one.
Step1: Restart Your Printer
The first and foremost thing to do is to restart your printer, a long break sometimes set printer offline itself or lose connection with the system. Restarting printing will allow it to get started from scratch and connect and follow commands as expected. To restart your printer, do the following:
Turn Off your Printer.
Take out the power supply cord from the socket.
Detach printer from the system, if connected via USB.
Detach all other devices connected to the printer.
Turn on the system by plugging in the power cord to the power supply socket.
Connect the printer to the system.
Restarting the printer most problem set it online again.
Step2: Set the Printer as Default
Have you added more than one printer to your system? In such a situation, the printer may get disconnected from the system.
You can set your brother printer default if you feel your brother wireless printer keeps going offline, especially when you give a command to another printer or use it after a long time.
To set your preferred printer as default, do the following:
Go to Control Panel in your computer
Click to open ‘Devices and Printers’ window.
Select your Brother printer as default by checking the checkbox in front of it.
Click to open settings check if the “Pause” option is selected.
Remove the ‘Pause’ by key punching it.
This will get back your printer online and fix your brother wireless printer offline issue once for all.
Step3: Turn off ‘use printer offline’ Option
If you recently made any changes to printer or system settings or your printer or system encountered some error, this could result in setting printer status as ‘Use Printer Offline”. Thus your printer is showing offline status, or your brother printer is going offline itself repeatedly. To turn back your printer into Online status, do the following:
Go to ‘start’ menu
Click on the ‘control panel.’
Select the ‘printers and faxes’ option. A new window will open showing the details of currently installed and working printers.
Double-click on Brother printer icon.
Deactivate the option ‘use printer offline’ by tapping on it.
This will automatically reconnect the printer to the system and change it to ‘online’ from the ‘offline’ status.
Step4: Update Printer Driver
Make sure your printer is working on the latest version of firmware, an old driver version can result in many unexpected printer errors, and brother printer going offline is one of those errors.
Go to the official brother website to check if there is an update available for your printer model. Choose the update as per your operating system i.e for mac and windows different update options/buttons are visible on the website.
You can also initiate the driver updating process from your system only by following these steps:
Right-click on your printer name.
Click on properties.
Now, Click on the Drivers tab.
Click on the “Update Driver” button to initiate the updating process.
NOTE: Make sure your system has internet access to explore and download the updated printer driver.
Regards,
Akshay
Technical Consultant
Apps4Rent | CloudDesktopOnline | O365CloudExperts
