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Overview

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Wi-Fi Direct™ is one of the wireless configuration methods developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance®. It allows you to configure a secured wireless network between your Brother machine and a mobile device, such as an

Android™ device, Windows® Phone device, iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, without using an access point. Wi-Fi Direct supports wireless network configuration using the one push or PIN Method of WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup™). You can also configure a wireless network by manually setting a SSID and password. Your Brother machine's Wi-Fi Direct feature supports WPA2™ security with AES encryption.

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1Mobile device2Your Brother machine Note

•If you enable the Wi-Fi Direct feature of your Brother machine, the wired and wireless interface of the machine will be disabled.

•The Wi-Fi Direct supported device can become a Group Owner (G/O). When configuring the Wi-Fi Direct network, the Group Owner (G/O) serves as an access point. See Group Owner (G/O) uu page 25.

•When your Brother machine is the Group Owner (G/O), your Brother machine supports one to one wireless communication using Wi-Fi Direct.

Benefits to the customer

When you want to print from your mobile device or scan to your mobile device, Wi-Fi Direct helps you configure a temporary wireless network easily, by using the one push or PIN method of WPS. For information on printing from your mobile device or scanning to your mobile device, you can download the

Mobile Print/Scan Guide for Brother iPrint&Scan or the AirPrint Guide from the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com/).

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