Troubleshooting Canon Printer Offline on Mac

When there is some communication problem between your Mac and the printer, the ‘printer offline’ error keeps popping up.

Try these easy troubleshooting steps one by one to fix your canon printer offline on mac issue at your own. Keep trying these tricks one after another until your issue gets resolved.

Check the Connections

The first thing you are supposed to do is to check your printer connectivity with your system.

Checking the Wired connectivity

• Start with checking the wired connection.
• Make sure USB cable is well seated in both the printer as well as in your Mac USB ports. Next, do the following:
• Turn off your printer.
• Turn off your Mac system.
• Pull out the USB cable to disconnect the printer from the system.
• Reboot your Mac and turn on the printer as well.
• Connect both with the help of USB cable.
• Make sure USB is placed well in both the ports.

The printer will start printing If there are any pending printing commands. Let the printer complete the unfinished jobs.

• Restart your router by turning off/on the power supply.
• Reboot your Mac system as well.
• Wait until the connectivity light on the router becomes stable.
• Also, let the mac system reboot completely.
• Once Mac is ready to work; click on the Apple icon.
• Select the ‘System Preferences’
• Click on the ‘Printers and Scanners’ option.

If you see and can choose your printer in the device list, that means your printer is connected and back online.

In case you didn’t find your printer name in the list then your network connection is the culprit. It is your wireless connection that is causing a problem for your 

printer working. 

Remove another connected printer

Connecting more than one printers to your system could be another reason to get you an “Offline Printer error on Mac’.

The same printer added with different names in your system may also confuse the system. To straighten up the things; do the following:

• Check in your “Printer & Scanner” window.
• For the time being remove all other connected printers.
• Delete all the multiple icons created for your (preferred) canon printer.
• Choose your printer and set it to ‘default.’
• The Canon printer offline error will shoo away until now.

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