Try to flush the print spooler:
Control panel > Administrative tools > Services
Select "Print Spooler" and choose to "Stop" the service, after that "Start" the service
press 'alt+f2' type system-config-printer right click on your printer select view printer queue
Assuming that a paper-jam hasn't stalled the printer, is there a good cable connection. It could also be that there is a queue of data waiting to reach the printer. Try canceling the queue and restart the printer.
Printer buffering, or printer queuing.
A Brother printer shows “offline” on Windows 10 mainly due to connection issues, wrong default printer settings, paused print queue, outdated drivers, or network/Wi-Fi problems. To fix it, first check that the printer is properly connected via USB or the same Wi-Fi network as your PC. Then go to “Devices and Printers,” right-click the Brother printer, and set it as the default printer. Clear any pending print jobs and disable “Use Printer Offline” from the queue window. Finally, restart both the printer and PC, and update or reinstall the Brother printer driver if needed.
Carefully remove the hamster, take hamster and bury hamster with a big funeral. Then you can worry about the printer.
To clear the print queue of another computer on the network with a shared printer, you can use the "Print Management" administrative tool in Windows. This tool allows you to manage printers and print servers on the network. You can connect to the remote print server, view the print queue, and clear any stuck print jobs. Alternatively, you can also use the "Remote Desktop" feature to access the other computer directly and manage the print queue from there.
queue
A printer driver is a bit of software that instructs a printer how to work. Without such a driver, the printer may not work, or print rubbish. A print queue forms when a print job is sent to the printer that is already printing. Once the first print job has been completed, the second print job is then printed.
A printer driver is a bit of software that instructs a printer how to work. Without such a driver, the printer may not work, or print rubbish. A print queue forms when a print job is sent to the printer that is already printing. Once the first print job has been completed, the second print job is then printed.
Print queue is when a list of documents or files have been sent to a printer for printing and they are waiting to be printed.
If you cannot get the printer restarted, you must cancel the job by right-clicking on it and selecting Cancel, to clear the queue. You may be able to get the printer working again by turning it off, unplugging it from the wall, and then plugging it in and turning it back on; but the print job, if it is partially processed, will be unreadable. You can, instead of canceling the print job, pause it; restart the printer as described above; and then restart the print job with right-click and Restart job. That will sometimes recover the print job.
I got stuck in a printer last week. Lost my leg in the ink cartridge.