[Best*] Why Is My Brother Printer Offline?

When you connect the brother printer to computer, It will be active to print the papers. 

But in some odd cases, You can’t print from the brother machine. when you hover on the print property, and it will show offline. 

Ideally, the brother printer goes offline due to a connection problem. So, When brother WIFI printer shows offline or paused error. You should inspect these things.

Apart from these settings, there can be several other causes due to which a brother printer keeps going offline.

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 Why is it saying my Brother printer is offline?

As we earlier said, The brother printer says offline because of the connection problem. The following reasons can cause that. 

  • The printer is not connected to the network. 
  • The printer & computer is not available in a similar network. 
  • A driver is outdated. 
  • The firewall/ Antivirus is blocking the connection. 

How do I fix my Brother printer when it says offline?

When brother printer shows offline on windows 10 & 11 pc. you need to make the following changes to get back your printer online.

Step 1- Restart the printer- 

Let’s cancel all print commands available in the queue. Restart the brother printer, router, and computer in the following sequence.

To cancel the print command- 

  • Let’s click on the printer icon available in the taskbar.
  • Right-click on a file presented in the row.
  • Press the cancel button from the menu.
  • Now copy the same method for different files as well.

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Now, after making these changes, you can restart the devices in the following order.

  • Restart your WIFI access point or modem (whatever you are using).
  • Power off the Brother machine for 2 minutes and then reboot it.
  • Now Reboot your computer as well.

Step 2- Check the connection- 

If you receive a brother printer showing an offline error on the windows 10 or mac pc, you should check the network settings.

The brother machine is probably not available in the network. That’s why you keep getting an offline error on your pc.

Besides this, Please be sure that the pc and printer are attached to the same network if they aren’t? You disconnect your printer.

Now connect the brother printer to the same network through which your pc is joined. Here is a quick guide to connecting a printer to the WIFI. 

  • Go to the Network
  • Click WLAN.
  • Now Press the Setup Wizard Option. 
  • Press Yes To Enable The WLAN services
  • Click on the Network name here. 
  • Enter your Network key (password)
  • Press the Ok button.  

If you face any trouble in WIFI setup, you can visit: how to fix the brother printer wifi setup failed issue.

Step 3- Check set as the default option- 

The brother printer often receives the offline error because they give a print command to the wrong printer.

You should select your printer as default to ignore this mistake, so it will go directly to the default printer whenever you give a print command.

  • Let’s initiate the control panel window (open run box >> type control >> press ok).Run box
  • Click on the devices and printers (if you don’t see this option, click on the hardware and sound).control panel
  • Select the brother printer property, right-click on it and press the set as default.set as default printer

Now you must be seeing a green checkmark on a brother printer property. Now you can give a print command again. Let’s see if the brother printer is coming back online or still showing paused or offline?

How do I brother printer default password? 

 For Mac Users- 

  • Let’s go to the system preference.
  • Go to the printers & scanners.
  • Click on the default menu option.
  • Choose your printer.

Step 4- Uncheck use printer offline option-

Suppose brother printer keeps going offline on the windows 10, windows 7, or other versions, ensure that you haven’t checked the use printer offline. Please uncheck it using the details provided here.

  • Let’s reopen the devices and printers window on your pc.
  • Right-click on the brother machine icon.
  • Uncheck the use printer offline.

Step 5- Remove the duplicate properties- 

Sometimes, we create more than one printer property by mistake. We can’t identify the working printer and provide the print request to the wrong printer.Remove devices, Fix brother printer keeps going offline

 

So you should delete all useless printer properties by taking these actions and keep the brother printer property only.

For windows pc- 

  • Let’s open the devices and printers window on your pc again.
  • Right-click on the printer properties and click on remove device option.
  • Select the property one by one and press the Remove device button.

Now remove the other printer properties as well.

For Mac Pc- 

  • Let’s go to the printer preferences on your MacBook.
  • Choose the printer that you require to remove and press the button.

Step 6- Update printer firmware, If brother printer is still showing offline- 

Sometimes, the brother printer keeps going offline because of the software issue, Especially when you have an old brother machine.

In that case, let’s upgrade the printer firmware and then retry to print something. Let’s see if the brother machine is coming back online or still offline?

Step 7- Disable the security- 

Have you checked the antivirus and firewall settings? Maybe they are blocking the tcp/ip ports. That’s why your pc is unable to ping to the brother printer.

disable windows firewall

So If your brother printer keeps going offline on a windows pc, you should turn off the firewall and antivirus for a minute.

Now cancel all print command from what’s printing and give a new test print command.

Step 8- Reinstall the brother software- 

After making  the changes into the printer and computer, if your brother printer still keeps going offline on windows 10 or mac pc, you should uninstall the brother printer software from your pc.

To uninstall the printer software from windows pc, you can take these actions.

  • Press Windows + R key to launch the run box on any windows machine.
  • Type appwiz.cpl.
  • Press the ok button.
  • Look for the brother printer software.
  • Press the uninstall button.
  • Now you will see a warning window.
  • Click on yes, and follow the procedure.

Right after removing the brother software, you can restart your pc and install the new brother printer driver.

For mac users- 

Just like that, you can remove the brother printer driver from your mac pc as well.

  • Let’s go to the printer’s preferences.
  • Select your printer and press the remove button.
  • Now go to the libraries in the mac pc.
  • Select the files.
  • Now choose the files.
  • Click on the delete file option.

Right after deleting the program, you can reinstall the brother printer driver.

Reset The Printer –

If your brother printer keeps going offline after certain time. There might be a problem with the internal files of printer. So I will recommend you to reset the brother printer.

Now setup the brother printer and connect the the brother printer to the network again.

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Ajay Rathaur

I am a tech blogger who is always excited to write about technology. Especially related to routers, printers and computers, and email. Along with writing, I have also worked as a technical support engineer for 7 years.

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