Canon printers might appear offline frequently because of many reasons. Usually, this error occurs when the printer is unable to receive any print commands from the system. Now, if you are skeptical about how to fix the issue and why is my canon printer saying offline, go through the causes and solutions of the problem given below.

Default settings issue: If a wrong printer is set as the default printer your canon printer might appear offline. Here, the wrong default printer settings are the reason due to which your Canon printer goes offline. Therefore you need to make sure that your printer is selected as ‘Default Printer’.

Set your Canon Printer Set as Default

Follow these steps to set up as default your canon printer

• Open ‘Control Panel’ from windows search and go to the ‘Devices and Printers' option.
• Next, search the control panel in the search bar and go to the "Device and Printers" option.
• Next to the list of printers, right-click on your Canon printer model and select the option of ‘set as default’. Once your printer is set as default, you will see a green checkmark on it.

Use Printer Offline Enable

Sometimes when the offline status option is not disabled, your printer may go offline.

How To Disable ‘Use Printer Offline’ Status

• Firstly, restart your printer and open the run box from the search bar. Thereafter, open the control panel and select the ‘Device and Printers’ option.
• Next, you will see your installed Canon printer on the screen.
• If you see your printer with a green checkmark, then right-click on your printer icon and select ‘See what’s printing option. However, if you do not see the green checkmark, right-click on printer, select the ‘Set as a default printer option’.
• For the last step to resolve your "why my canon printer showing , click on the printer and if you see two checkmarks beside the offline of ‘use canon printer offline or ‘Pause Printing’, uncheck them to bring and your printer will be brought back online from offline mode.

Printer spooler printer's sure that the Canon printers spooler server turned ‘ON’. But if it’s ‘Of’ then your r Windows 10 system will show a “my Canon printer is offline” error.

Fix Printer Spooler Error

• Go to the Window search bar and open ‘Run’ dia lMSCox. Then, type ‘services. msc’ and press Enter.

• Now from the shore ‘properties’ window, locate the ‘printer spooler’ option from the list. Next, the ake sure that the status of spooler is in ‘running mode’.

• Now close the ‘Properties’ window and check the status of your printer. It will be in ‘online’ mode.

These were some of the reasons for your question of why my canon ts3122 is offline. However, other than these there are also a few other causes like improper paper feeding, error connection, faulty or outdated printer, etc. But to tackle all these issues you might need proper guidance. For which, experts at Printer IT Help are always at your rescue. With a plethora of services, they make sure to resolve all your queries.