Remote Printing stopped working
You have the following options to troubleshoot remote printing: confirm that local printing works, clear the print spooler, or reinstall the printer driver.
Confirm that local printing works
- Open a document directly on your local client computer. The client is the computer that you're sitting at.
- Test printing directly from the client computer to the client printer.
- If printing works, proceed to the next section.
Note: If printing did not work, contact the manufacturer of your printer for further instructions.
Confirm that the printer is listed
- Launch Remote Control and open the Devices and Printers list on the host computer. The printer should be listed as <printer name> via LogMeIn.
Note: On Windows 10 computers, open Printers & scanners.
- Right-click anywhere in an empty space in this folder and choose . It may take a few minutes to display the mapped printer.
If the printer is stuck, clear the print queue
Clear the print spooler or print queue both locally and on your remote host as described above. If you still have issues after the print spooler is cleared, try to reinstall the remote printer drivers as follows:
Reinstall the Remote Printer drivers
- When taking remote control of a host, on the Remote Control toolbar, click Options.
- Under Remote Printing, clear any selected printers.
- On the host computer, open the LogMeIn Control Panel.
- Click the Options tab, click Preferences.
- On the Advanced tab, click Reinstall printer driver.
- Click OK.
This will reinstall the printer drivers. You must end your remote control session then take remote control of the host again and under
, select the printer to which you want to print. If none of the above resolves the issue, uninstall the host software from the host computer, reboot, then reinstall. This can only be done by someone located physically at the host computer.- Watch the video tutorial of troubleshooting remote printing issues here.
- Not sure what the difference is between local and remote printing? See this video.