For HP Tango printers , touch and hold the Information button until all control panel buttons light up, and then touch the Information button and Cancel button at the same time. If Wi-Fi Direct is not listed on the report, your printer does not support the feature. Poor Wi-Fi Direct connection : Move the printer and computer or mobile device closer together, and then resend the print job.
Restart devices : Restarting the printer and the computer or mobile device can clear possible error conditions. Disconnect the Ethernet or USB cable : These connection types might interfere with connection and basic driver installation. Install the HP print driver or mobile app : Go to Restore network settings to default : Reset the printer network settings to clear any issues.
Printers without touchscreens : Press and hold the Wireless button and the Cancel buttons until the Wireless and Power lights blink. The printer might restart. For HP Tango printers : Press and hold the Wireless button on the back of the printer until the Edge lighting flashes blue. You have a short time 90 seconds for most models to enter the PIN before it expires.
Enter the PIN, and then click Next to finish the setup. Generate a new PIN : Restart your computer, and then go through the printer setup process again. Install the HP Smart app : Go to Use a direct wireless connection to your printer to access the printer homepage on your computer or mobile device.
Turn on the printer, and then make sure ink cartridges are installed and paper is loaded in the tray. Printers without a control panel menu: Print an information page. Use a method that matches the control panel buttons on your printer.
HP DeskJet and , ENVY and , and Tango printers: touch and hold the Information button until all control panel buttons light up, and then touch the Information button and Cancel button at the same time.
On your computer or mobile device, open the Wi-Fi or wireless settings to view the list of available wireless networks. Select your Wi-Fi Direct printer name from the list of networks, and then enter the password to connect to the printer. In a web browser, type If a login or certificate window displays, complete the information to finish opening the EWS. If a website security certificate displays, click Continue to open the printer homepage. If a login window opens, type admin for the username, and then type the PIN found on the label located underneath or on the back of the printer, or the password set by the printer administrator.
In an internet browser address bar, type If a website security certificate displays, click Continue to open the printer's EWS. Select the Network tab, and then click or tap Status. If a Your connection is not private message displays, click or tap Advanced , and then click or tap Proceed to [Printer IP address]. Change the desired settings, and then click or tap Apply. Wi-Fi Direct and HP wireless direct both provide direct wireless connections between your printer and a mobile device or computer without a router.
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See your browser's documentation for specific instructions. HP Customer Support. The advantage of using Wi-Fi Direct over Bluetooth is that the Wi-Fi range and transfer speeds are significantly higher than those of Bluetooth. So, in short - use Wi-Fi Direct if you want a better way to send files from one device to another. As of , the feature is used for a range of applications that range from file sharing and data transfer to screen sharing and even playing games together.
Let us take a look at some use cases with examples. Sharing large files between smartphones wasn't very straightforward a few years ago. The only options you had were Bluetooth and cable. While using Bluetooth was OK when it came to small files, using it to share larger files meant waiting for several minutes or hours for the transfer to complete.
Data transfers using cables were faster - but then it was cumbersome. To learn how to transfer files using Wi-Fi Direct, please check our next section. Wi-Fi sharing is also used to quickly move data from an old phone to a new phone while setting it up for the first time.
Most modern printers support Wi-Fi Direct - thereby enabling them to communicate wirelessly with computers and smartphones and easily handle wireless printing jobs. Other areas where we have seen Wi-Fi Direct being used extensively include offline, close-range smartphone gaming, and screen-sharing. You heard that right. The wireless screen sharing feature supported by your phone comes courtesy of Wi-Fi Direct. There are some games that use the same feature and let users play multiplayer games without the need for an internet connection.
Every Android smartphone that uses Android 4. While the systems' user interfaces might vary, setting this functionality up is relatively simple and unified across all devices. Wi-Fi Direct, until recently, did not offer native support for file transfers.
That no longer is the case, thanks to a newly introduced feature called Nearby Share. Google also has its own app called 'Files' that includes a File transfer functionality which uses Wi-Fi Direct.
Most modern smartphones do not require you to manually 'turn on' Wi-Fi Direct. The feature is automatically turned on when you turn the Wi-Fi on.
Your smartphone will start scanning for devices that you can connect to. Unlike with Bluetooth, there is no button or anything that you need to tap to turn Wi-Fi Direct on. Wi-Fi Direct is enabled the moment you have a stable internet connection. This doesn't mean that Wi-Fi Direct is on all the time. Your smartphone only starts scanning for nearby devices to connect to when you tap on the Wi-Fi Direct tab.
Important: You also need to turn on Wi-Fi direct on your laptop, television, printer, or whichever device you are connecting to, as well as having activated it on your smartphone using the steps above. The need for faster data transfer speeds meant that existing wireless technology standards such as Bluetooth were insufficient. A new wireless technology standard had to be developed, one that would provide simple connections for simple tasks such as sending a file from a smartphone to a computer or printer.
To give the world the wireless technology standard it so desperately needed, the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organization that promotes Wi-Fi technology and certifies Wi-Fi products if they conform to certain standards of interoperability, developed the WiFi Direct standard, enabling devices to easily connect with each other without requiring a wireless router.
WiFi Direct is built upon the same WiFi technology used by most modern consumer electronic devices to communicate with wireless routers. It allows two devices to communicate with each other, provided that at least one of them is compliant with the standard to establish a peer-to-peer connection.
Wi-Fi Protected Setup is a network security standard created by the Wi-Fi Alliance to allow home users who know little of wireless security and may be intimidated by the available security options to set up WPA, a protocol and security certification program developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer networks.
WiFi Direct is supported by more devices than most people realize. One of the best uses for WiFi Direct is for file transfers, especially if you have a large number of files. While you could use Bluetooth, transferring large files or a large number of them would take much longer than a WiFi Direct connection.
As the name suggests, using WiFi Direct in Windows 10 allows you to make direct connections with other devices. If you want to transfer files from your smartphone to your PC regularly, then you may prefer to use the built-in Your Phone app instead.
Ben Stockton is a freelance technology writer based in the United Kingdom. In a past life, Ben was a college lecturer in the UK, training teens and adults. Since leaving the classroom, Ben has taken his teaching experience and applied it to writing tech how-to guides and tutorials, specialising in Linux, Windows, and Android.
He has a degree in History and a postgraduate qualification in Computing.
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