Windows 7 - Brother Printer Offline

Hi again...

I have a Brother All In One which was working fine in Windows 7 but is now contstantly showing up as "offline" in the print queue. I have a home network with my "main" machine my desktop running Win 7. I have 2 other laptops - one is a HP with Vista, and the other is a Macbook Pro. I have been able to print today from the laptops, but the desktop (Win 7) tells me that the machine is offline. To be clear, the machine is on, and is connected to my network.

Windows 7 is being stubborn and is not recognizing that it's online. I've printed to it in the past and now it's not cooperating (when I need it to, of course).

Help.

Did you try uninstalling/reinstalling the print driver?

I did. After I read your post I downloaded and uninstalled / reinstalled the driver. I was getting the same issues, so I looked into my firewall program (BitDefender). It turned out to be a "switch" that put me onto a Public network vs. a Home/Office network. The printer was disabled due to the fact the settings were to not allow 'outsiders' to utilize the network. Once I reconfigured BitDefender to my Home/Office network, all is well in printer-land.

Thank you for letting us know! Good news.

Thanks! I also had Bitdefender and a Brother printer, and this fixed it all!