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The last thing you’d want while working on a wireless printer is the printer disrupting your workflow by going offline all of a sudden.
It is difficult to understand what exactly went wrong and why is the hp printer showing offline.There are multiple reasons for the printer to go offline and multiple solutions to fix this issue quickly and easily.
Follow the steps given below to make the printer’s status from ‘offline’ to ‘online’ without going through much hassle.Setting your printer as the default printerBefore you use this option, make sure the default printer drivers match the printer you are trying to get online.Search windows for the devices option, then click on the printers and drivers option in the devices section.You will see the option “Let Windows manage my default printer”, untick that option.Check the list of available printers, click on your printer’s name and then click on manage.Under the option of “manage your device”, click on the option of Set as default to complete the final step of converting HP printer showing offline windows 10 to online.Unselecting The “Use Printer Offline” OptionHP wireless printers may be set to offline mode.
To rectify this setting, please navigate as follows:Go to settings devices and printers, and then from the list of all the listed printers, select the one that you are trying to get online.Right-click on the selected printer and uncheck the “Use printer offline” option if it shows a tick mark beside it.Update Printer DriversTo fix hp printer is offline windows 10 error, maybe you need to update or reinstall the drivers for your windows.
Update and reinstall your drivers on windows by following easy steps.
