Please ensure that your printer’s power cable is plugged into an electrical outlet and restart your router before proceeding with the solutions listed below, as this may result in network failure.

  1. Service The Printer Spooler must be restarted.
  2. Disable To cancel any unfinished print jobs, use the Printer Offline feature on your Canon printer.
  3. Your Canon printer’s software should be reinstalled.

Solution 1: Service The Printer Spooler must be restarted.

  • From the Start menu, type service into the search box. Pick Services (Desktop app) from the list of options.
  • Right-click on the Print Spooler icon. Then press the Restart button. If the Restart option is greyed out, select Start instead.
  • Right-click Print Spooler again and select Properties. Then change its Startup type to Automatic. To save your settings, click OK.
  • Restart your computer and try printing your file to see if your printer is working.

Solution 2: Disable To cancel any unfinished print jobs, use the Printer Offline feature on your Canon printer.

  • Type control panel into the search box on the Start menu. Then, from the drop-down menu, choose Control Panel (Desktop app).
  • From the drop-down menu, choose Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers.
  • In the Printers catalogue, find and right-click your Canon printer. Then choose View what’s printing from the drop-down menu.
  • To see if Use Printer Offline is selected, go to the Printer tab. If there’s a checkmark next to it, click it to uncheck it.
  • After that, click Printer again, and then Cancel All Documents.
  • To see if your Canon printer is working, print your file.

Solution 3:Your Canon printer’s software should be reinstalled.

The most likely cause of your printer’s inability to print is a driver problem. If the preceding steps do not work, you will need to reinstall your Canon printer driver.

  • To open a Run box, simultaneously press the Windows key and the R key on your keyboard.
  • Your Canon printer driver can be found in the print queues. Then, from the context menu, select Uninstall device.
  • Download the most recent driver for your printer model from the Canon website. Then, install it on your computer.

Although downloading the driver from the Canon website is simple, it can be time-consuming. Allow Driver Easy to help you if you don’t have the time, patience, or technical knowledge to manually search for and download drivers.

Driver Easy will detect your system and locate the necessary drivers. You don’t need to know what operating system your computer is running, and you don’t have to worry about downloading and installing the wrong driver or making a mistake during installation.

  1. Here is where you can get Driver Easy and install it.
  2. Select the Scan Now button in Driver Easy. After that, Driver Easy will run a scan on your computer to look for incompatible drivers.
  3. Click the Update button next to a flagged printer driver to automatically download and install the latest version.
  4. To test if your Canon printer is working, restart your computer and print a document.