Some Windows users have encountered the issue that when they try to print from their computer, they get a message saying, ‘Port in use, please wait.’ No matter how long they wait, nothing works.

While connecting to a network printer, if you see message Windows cannot connect to the printer, Operation failed with error 0x00000bcb; here are some suggestions to ...

Your printer may be offline because it has many moving parts, and there are many different ways it can fail.