You are giving commands to your printer, and the printer cannot execute the printing. You must be thinking, what has happened to your printer? There can be a possibility your printer is turned on, and it is still showing an offline status.
This happens when you have not set your printer as default. In this case, you can go to the control panel to check whether the OKI printer is defaulted. If not, you must do the necessary steps to see if the issue is resolved. Nothing to worry about if you don't know how to do this; we have provided an easy solution to get the OKI printer back online.
If the multiple printers connected to your computer and some other printer are set as the default printer, you won't be able to print from your OKI printer.
What happens in some cases is, by chance, select to use the printer in offline mode.
Follow these steps to change the OKI printer from offline mode:-
If you use a USB cable, you must ensure the USB is correctly connected to the printer. Check also the USB port is in working condition.
Sometimes, the wire is connected loosely to the computer, and you might feel it is connected but not. Therefore you must verify if the cable is correctly connected to the Ethernet port.
See if the router port is OK or not; you have to make sure that the OKI printer network signal light should be flashing. In the case of a wireless connection, you must ensure that the printer and the system are connected to the same network or Wi-Fi.
You can fix the OKI printer offline by resetting the printer spooler service. Follow these steps to fix the OKI printer offline:-
We know how much people love the word 'Later'. Yes, I am talking about the notifications that pop up on the screen for the latest updates, and after doing that, we wonder why we are facing different issues and errors.
If you don't update your device occasionally, there might be chances of getting some bugs that would not be fixed and not only show the OKI printer offline error but other errors as well.
Therefore, you must ensure that whenever the latest update pops up on your screen, don't delay installing it. To check out the latest updates, open the settings and go to 'Update and Security'. Click on the 'Check for updates' option, and if the update is available, install it.
Many users have claimed that changing the printer properties has helped them fix the OKI printer offline issue.
Follow these steps to change printer properties:-
If nothing works for you, try this method so that the OKI printer can get back online.
Follow these steps to install the printer drivers again:-
For most of the users, these steps have worked. However, if you still face any issues, then feel free to contact the experts- Printer Tales.