Connect the printer with HP Wireless Direct

Connect a computer, smart phone, tablet, or other Wi-Fi capable device directly to your HP printer with HP Wireless Direct. With an HP Wireless Direct connection you can print wirelessly, without a router, from your Wi-Fi capable devices.

●HP printing software is required for printing over Wireless Direct from a computer. A compatible printing application is required for printing over Wireless Direct from a smart phone or tablet.

●A Wireless Direct connection is turned on and managed from the printer’s control panel.

●If your WiFi capable device supports WPA2 encryption, you can enable security when you setup a Wireless Direct connection.

●Five devices or fewer can simultaneously use Wireless Direct to connect to your printer.

●A Wireless Direct connection can be used while your printer is also connected to a wireless network or a USB cable.

●Wireless Direct cannot connect to the internet.

This section covers the following topics:

●Connect and print from a WiFi capable mobile device

●Connect and print from a WiFi capable computer over a wireless router and Wireless Direct

●Connect and print from a WiFi capable computer over Wireless Direct only

●Change from printing over USB to a Wireless Direct connection

Connect and print from a WiFi capable mobile device

1.Setup your printer. A compatible print application is required for printing from a mobile device. If your mobile print application can print over a wireless network connection, you can print over Wireless Direct.

NOTE: Compatible with mobile devices with HP ePrint mobile app installed, HP Printer Control app installed, Apple devices with iOS 4.2+, and HP webOS devices.

2.Turn on your printer’s Wireless Direct connection.

●Press (X451 Series) or touch (X551 Series) the Setup button from the control panel.

●Open the Network menu.

●Open the Wireless Direct menu.

●Select On to enable Wireless Direct connections or select On With Security to enable secure, Wireless Direct connections to the printer.

3.Turn on your mobile device’s Wi-Fi capability.

4.From your mobile device, search for and connect to the Wireless Direct name for your printer, such as HP-Setup-xx-Officejet Pro X551.

5.From your mobile device’s print application, confirm your HP printer is the default printer, select print, and then print your document.

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