None of these things changes the fact that windows 10 continues to see the printer as offline and refuses to print to it. this same printer setup was working perfectly and had been for months, under windows 8.1.. Printer offline status on windows 10 [solved] by sophie luo – last updated: 3 months ago printer issues printer 15 comments it’s a weekday and you need to print out a file for an important meeting in 30 minutes.. If you upgrade the system from windows 7, 8 and 8.1 to windows 10, the most pleasing thing is that when you upgrade to windows 10, your printer can work properly. but sometimes, after you have upgraded your system to windows 10, you will find the printer is incompatible with windows 10, it cannot work properly or it cannot work..
Printer not working and cannot print after update to windows 10: after upgrade your computer (pc) to windows 10 from windows 7, 8 and 8.1, your printer may stop working and show offline status, some printer drivers for a specific type of hardware might have issues with new windows 10 operating system, will discuss steps to resolve the printer. This feature is not available right now. please try again later.. When ever we install a window 7 update, the printer goes off-line, and i have to do a system restore to an earlier date to get the printer bak on line..