My HP Photosmart C6150 printer is hooked up to our computers via wireless connection to the Linksys router. After adding the printer to either of our Windows 7 computers, we can only print for about 24 hours before the printer goes offline and will not print any documents in queue. How do I make it so the printer stays connected to the computer for more than a day or so? Here''s the specs of our computers: Computer 1 (my mom''s computer): HP Pavilion case AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.66 GHz Stock CPU cooling Asus M2N68LA motherboard 2x1 GB DDR2 667 Dual Channel RAM (not sure of what brand) Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 500GB hard drive Lite-On Lightscribe DVD burner Lite-On DVD-ROM drive KFA2 GeForce 9600GT OC Thermaltake Purepower 500w PSU Computer 2 (my computer): Cooler Master Storm Sniper case Intel Core i7 920 2.66 GHz (Often running at 4.2 GHz) Xigmatek Dark Knight S1283V CPU cooler with OCZ Freeze thermal grease Corsair Dominator 3x1 GB DDR3 1600 Triple Channel RAM Western Digital Caviar Black 7200RPM 1TB Hard Drive 2x Sony Optiarc Lightscribe DVD Burner EVGA X58 3X SLI motherboard EVGA Geforce GTX 285 1024 MB Corsair HX1000W PSU Super Talent INTAIN1MCR Media Card Reader. If this was a bug with 7 RC, it has continued with Windows 7 Professional. I have a Brother HL-5250DN and a HP Officejet 6310 connected by Ethernet cables to my PC through a Belkin router and had the same problem with 7 RC with both of them having to be reinstalled every time I rebooted.
At the time I had also installed the HP drivers for Vista in Vista compatibility mode so I could use the scanner on the Officejet but this did not affect the problem with the HP printer going off line. I have now upgraded to Pro and had hoped this problem would be resolved but it has not!
Frankly, I am fairly p**sed as I submitted this on the Windows 7 forum and got no satisfactory reply. I have also tried to install the HP Windows 7 drivers but, at the moment, the networked printer cannot be found, so I am trying to resolve this with HP. If this was a bug with 7 RC, it has continued with Windows 7 Professional. I have a Brother HL-5250DN and a HP Officejet 6310 connected by Ethernet cables to my PC through a Belkin router and had the same problem with 7 RC with both of them having to be reinstalled every time I rebooted. At the time I had also installed the HP drivers for Vista in Vista compatibility mode so I could use the scanner on the Officejet but this did not affect the problem with the HP printer going off line. I have now upgraded to Pro and had hoped this problem would be resolved but it has not! Frankly, I am fairly p**sed as I submitted this on the Windows 7 forum and got no satisfactory reply.
I have also tried to install the HP Windows 7 drivers but, at the moment, the networked printer cannot be found, so I am trying to resolve this with HP. I''m having a similar problem with an HP LaserJet 1018. I get it to work sometimes but then it loses contact from both computers! Windows 7 Pro 64 on one machine (with USB printer attached) Windows 7 Home Premium 64 on the other - driving me crazy!
On the advice of Brother, I changed the driver for my Brother printer to HP LaserJet 6P and this seems to have accepted the static IP address (it is a complete mystery to me!). Hi - noticed you''re technically excellent response re networked printers - any idea of a fix for a USB connected printer? The only solution so far is to restart the printer on each re-boot - stop/start the printer spooler) / select bidirectional on printer properties and print a test page, then deselect bidirectional - and the damn thing works. Try any thing else and nada. As this seems to be a Windows 7 issue here (on my old 32bit XP network not a problem) I''d be really grateful for any practical help! I''ve tried the Windows 7 forum and no useful response.
Had problems with Win7 printing to my HP6540 connected to a 98SE box and shared. Finally found the following post, look at the date! Thanks, Paul in Montreal! Look here: '' Paul in Montreal Posts: n/a Re: Can''t connect to Network printer - Win98 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, I''ve found a solution (worked for my setup) that clears the printer offline problem when printing from a Vista laptop PC over a home network to a printer connected to a Windows98 desktop PC.
I never had this problem with my XP Home laptop accessing the printers on the Windows98 PC. With the Vista PC, I was always able to Add my 2 printers (HP PSC 1350 and Canon i560) using Vista''s wizard (Add a local printer), but after a restart of the Vista PC, both printers would be offline. In Printer properties, Ports tab, both printers would appear as Client Side Rendering Provider under the Description column.
My Vista PC is a new Dell Inspiron 1420, Vista Home Premium. My print server is a Dell Dimension V350, Windows 98. Home network is WiFi using a D-Link 624 router, WPA-PSK security enabled. Canon i560 on parallel port of Dell Dimension V350 HP PSC 1350 on USB port of Dell Dimension V350 Here''s the fix: 1. In Control Panel, Printers, delete offline printers. If they wont delete, it may be because there are pending print jobs in the queue. Open the printer and Cancel the jobs.
In Printer properties, Ports tab, delete the previoulsy installed printers (offline statuts) that appear as Client Side Rendering Provider under the Description column. To do this, highlight the port, then click on Delete Port button. Restart your PC. Now reinstall the printers as follows: 5. Open Control panel, Printers, and click Add a printer. Click Add a local printer. Select the ''Use an existing port'' radio button, and select LPT1: (Printer Port).
Install the printer driver. Mine were found in the list inlcuded with Vista. Select the manufacturer and the printer. In the next window, accept the printer name or type in a new name. Leave the ''Set as default printer'' box unchecked. Vista should now install the printer.
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A window should open saying ''You''ve successfully added printer name. DO NOT Print a test page at this time, because nothing is connected to the LPT1 port on the laptop. Just press Finish. The printer you just added should appear in the Printers window. Click ONCE on the newly added printer to highlight it, then right-click and open Properties. On the Ports tab, click Add Port…, select Local Port, then click New Port… 14. When the Port Name window open, Enter a port name as follows: \\computername\printername (replace computername with the name of your PC acting as print server, and printername with the name of your printer).
You should now have a new port listed on the Ports tab of the printer Properties, but now the Description should be Local Port, instead of Client Side Rendering Provider. Now you can go to the General tab, and Print a Test Page. Hopefully, your test page will print. Then restart your computer to check that the printer comes back online.''. Here''s the fix: 1. In Control Panel, Printers, delete offline printers.
If they wont delete, it may be because there are pending print jobs in the queue. Open the printer and Cancel the jobs. In Printer properties, Ports tab, delete the previoulsy installed printers (offline statuts) that appear as Client Side Rendering Provider under the Description column. To do this, highlight the port, then click on Delete Port button. Restart your PC. Now reinstall the printers as follows: 5.
Open Control panel, Printers, and click Add a printer. Click Add a local printer. Select the ''Use an existing port'' radio button, and select LPT1: (Printer Port). Install the printer driver. Mine were found in the list inlcuded with Vista.
Select the manufacturer and the printer. In the next window, accept the printer name or type in a new name. Leave the ''Set as default printer'' box unchecked. Vista should now install the printer. A window should open saying ''You''ve successfully added printer name. DO NOT Print a test page at this time, because nothing is connected to the LPT1 port on the laptop.
Just press Finish. The printer you just added should appear in the Printers window. Click ONCE on the newly added printer to highlight it, then right-click and open Properties.
On the Ports tab, click Add Port…, select Local Port, then click New Port… 14. When the Port Name window open, Enter a port name as follows: \\computername\printername (replace computername with the name of your PC acting as print server, and printername with the name of your printer). You should now have a new port listed on the Ports tab of the printer Properties, but now the Description should be Local Port, instead of Client Side Rendering Provider. Now you can go to the General tab, and Print a Test Page. Hopefully, your test page will print. Then restart your computer to check that the printer comes back online.'' ============================================================ THIS IS FOR NETWORK PRINTER In Windows 7 I follow all the instructions #1-12 13.
On the Ports tab, click Add Portal, select Standard TCP/IP Port, then click New Portal 14. Add a Standard Wizard TCP/IP Port Wizard, Click NEXT 15. Add Printer Name or IP Address (better input IP ADDRESS) 16.
It says Detecting IP Address 17. Then Click Custom Settings then, click NEXT, Finish. Now you can go to the General tab, and Print a Test Page.
Hope this on can help you. I''m running win/7 pro on a new laptop. Was having the problem of the printer going ''offline''.
I tried removing the printer and reinstalling the driver. Got through that ok but now I can''t print at all. I have a desk top running XP that is the printer server on wireless network.
XP system can print (connected through USB) I can''t get through the steps for ''network printer''. Do I want a TCP/IP port AND LPT1 port? Right now the system can''t detect the printer name (don''t know how to find the IP address). I''ve been working with HP all morning and got no where.
They say the XP server is not communicating with the laptop (win/7) but I haven''t changed anything on the XP system. For what it’s worth, this is what I did to prevent my Brother HL-2070N network printer on my local LAN from going “offline” every time I rebooted my XP Pro PC.
Download and extract the latest Brother print drivers 2. Log into your router responsible for DHCP assignment of TCP/IP addresses.
Configure the router to assign a static IP to the network printer (for example: 192.168.1.100). Enter the static IP you assigned to your printer into your favorite Web Browser and go into the NetBIOS Network Configuration of the printer.
Configure the “Domain Name” to match the Domain Name of your network (for example: WORKGROUP). Click Start>Settings>Printers. Click to “Add a Printer” and select “A network printer” 5. Click to “Browse for a printer”. Under “Microsoft Windows Networks”, double click your “Domain Name, then double click the “DHCPP8” printer name, select “BINARY_P1”, and click Next. Click “OK” to the warning message about the server not having the correct printer drivers.
In the “Add Printer Wizard” window, click “Have Disk”. Browse to the printer driver you downloaded previously and click “Open”. Select the default printer option and allow the installation to complete. The printer will now show up as “BINARY_P1 on DHCPPC8” and will remain “online” even after rebooting your PC. Hello there, Have you checked compatibility? Just an FYI for you. It is always best to check with the software manufacturer FIRST.
They will tell you if they have tested the product and the version, as well as whether or not it will work with Windows 7. Check out the Windows 7 Compatibility site: (There you will find out about hardware and software compatibilty.) There is a pulldown from which you can choose ''hardware'' and ''software''. There are also some great articles, instructional videos and such to help with your Windows 7 at our Springboard site: In any event a lot of the times, Vista drivers will work in lieu of Windows 7 drivers, however, it''s not 100%!
As stated previously, it''s best to have the Windows 7 certified drivers installed. Microsoft does have an official Windows 7 Support Forum located here. It is supported by product specialists as well as engineers and support teams. You may want to check the threads available there for additional assitance and support. Thanks again, John M.
Microsoft Windows Client Support. Hello there, Have you checked compatibility? Just an FYI for you. It is always best to check with the software manufacturer FIRST. They will tell you if they have tested the product and the version, as well as whether or not it will work with Windows 7. Check out the Windows 7 Compatibility site: (There you will find out about hardware and software compatibilty.) There is a pulldown from which you can choose ''hardware'' and ''software''.
There are also some great articles, instructional videos and such to help with your Windows 7 at our Springboard site: In any event a lot of the times, Vista drivers will work in lieu of Windows 7 drivers, however, it''s not 100%! As stated previously, it''s best to have the Windows 7 certified drivers installed. Microsoft does have an official Windows 7 Support Forum located here. It is supported by product specialists as well as engineers and support teams. You may want to check the threads available there for additional assitance and support. Thanks again, John M. Microsoft Windows Client Support The printer goes offline if I try to print before making sure that the networked computer the printer is connected to (USB) is not in sleep mode or turned off.
Turning on that computer does not fix the ''printer offline'', and all subsequent print jobs still are sent as though the printer is offline. I can delete the job(s) that were sent when the other computer was off, but it still registers the printer as ''offline''. Windows needs to be able to detect when a computer and connected printer comes back online and then print to it without rebooting (which is the only simple solution, going through 14 steps to delete then re-add the printer is a bigger waste of time and does not solve the problem). Rebooting seems ridiculously difficult!
Both computers are running Windows 7. The printer is shown online and works from the directly connected computer, but not from mine. I want to add some info to this thread, I have three laptops (Toshiba and two Dells all 32bit) all using a USB Epson RX565 connected to the Dell desktop. I just upgraded (fresh install) the Dell desktop to Windows 7 Pro (64). One Dell laptop is running Windows XP (32), the Toshiba and the other Dell are running Windows 7 (32). I had some initial problems getting the XP Dell laptop to connect to the printer, most owing to the name of the share (it couldn''t find a matching x86 driver). Now everything is working, except like others n this thread, the printer on the windows 7 Dell laptop goes ''offline'' and can''t be coaxed back to a ''ready'' state.
I am having no issues with the Win 7 Toshiba or the XP Dell. I have rebooted the Dell laptop and cycled the power on the printer itself. The only thing that seems to bring the printer back to a ready state is to delete the printer on the laptop and restart and re-install.
I plan to pursue adding the printer as ''local'' to the Windows 7 Dell laptop (with the problem), but since I am having no problems with the Windows 7 Toshiba, it would seem this is a configuration issue on the Dell laptop. The Win 7 Toshiba laptop is a former XP machine (clean install), the Win 7 Dell laptop (with the issue) is a former Vista machine upgraded to 7. So this problem may have its roots in some legacy Vista driver/registry entry.
I hope this helps someone track this down! Had problems with Win7 printing to my HP6540 connected to a 98SE box and shared. Finally found the following post, look at the date! Thanks, Paul in Montreal! Look here: '' Paul in Montreal Posts: n/a Re: Can''t connect to Network printer - Win98 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, I''ve found a solution (worked for my setup) that clears the printer offline problem when printing from a Vista laptop PC over a home network to a printer connected to a Windows98 desktop PC. I never had this problem with my XP Home laptop accessing the printers on the Windows98 PC.
With the Vista PC, I was always able to Add my 2 printers (HP PSC 1350 and Canon i560) using Vista''s wizard (Add a local printer), but after a restart of the Vista PC, both printers would be offline. In Printer properties, Ports tab, both printers would appear as Client Side Rendering Provider under the Description column. My Vista PC is a new Dell Inspiron 1420, Vista Home Premium. My print server is a Dell Dimension V350, Windows 98. Home network is WiFi using a D-Link 624 router, WPA-PSK security enabled.
Canon i560 on parallel port of Dell Dimension V350 HP PSC 1350 on USB port of Dell Dimension V350 Here''s the fix: 1. In Control Panel, Printers, delete offline printers. If they wont delete, it may be because there are pending print jobs in the queue. Open the printer and Cancel the jobs. In Printer properties, Ports tab, delete the previoulsy installed printers (offline statuts) that appear as Client Side Rendering Provider under the Description column. To do this, highlight the port, then click on Delete Port button. Restart your PC.
Now reinstall the printers as follows: 5. Open Control panel, Printers, and click Add a printer. Click Add a local printer. Select the ''Use an existing port'' radio button, and select LPT1: (Printer Port). Install the printer driver. Mine were found in the list inlcuded with Vista. Select the manufacturer and the printer.
In the next window, accept the printer name or type in a new name. Leave the ''Set as default printer'' box unchecked. Vista should now install the printer.
A window should open saying ''You''ve successfully added printer name. DO NOT Print a test page at this time, because nothing is connected to the LPT1 port on the laptop.
Just press Finish. The printer you just added should appear in the Printers window. Click ONCE on the newly added printer to highlight it, then right-click and open Properties. On the Ports tab, click Add Port…, select Local Port, then click New Port… 14. When the Port Name window open, Enter a port name as follows: \\computername\printername (replace computername with the name of your PC acting as print server, and printername with the name of your printer). You should now have a new port listed on the Ports tab of the printer Properties, but now the Description should be Local Port, instead of Client Side Rendering Provider. Now you can go to the General tab, and Print a Test Page.
Hopefully, your test page will print. Then restart your computer to check that the printer comes back online.'' Thank you for taking the time to share. I was at step 11 but could not resolve the offline issue.
I''m using the identical setup as you but with Windows 7. Followed step 13 to 16 and all is working. I even tried to fail the system several times but it is all good now. Thanks again. Go to start,devices and printers,right click on the shared printer and select printer properties,then select the advanced tab,and select always available. While searching on the net for an answer to the problem that my Canon Pixma MP560 always appeared to be offline, I stumbled onto this site. When I saw your recommendation I tried it.
I found that (I don''t know how) there was a copy of the printer under the device tab, and apparently it was this copy that my computer was referring to as my default printer! I deleted the copy, then chose the original Canon Pixma MP560 as my default printer. Now I don''t have anymore problems when I need to print.