Connect and print from a WiFi capable computer over a wireless router
and Wireless Direct
1. Setup and install your printer over a wireless router. Make sure you can successfully print over
your wireless router before proceeding.
2. Turn on your printer’s Wireless Direct connection.
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Press (X476 Series) or touch (X576 Series) the Setup
button from the control panel.
● Open the Network Setup menu.
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Open the Wireless Direct menu.
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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 computer’s Wi-Fi capability.
4. From your computer, search for and connect to the Wireless Direct name for your printer, such
as HP-Setup-xx-Officejet Pro X576.
5. From your computer, select print, and then confirm to print your document.
Connect and print from a WiFi capable computer over Wireless Direct only
1. Setup your printer, but do not install the HP printer software.
2. Turn on your printer’s Wireless Direct connection.
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Press (X476 Series) or touch (X576 Series) the Setup
button from the control panel.
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Open the Network Setup menu.
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Open the Wireless Direct menu.
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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 computer’s Wi-Fi capability.
4. From your computer, search for and connect to the Wireless Direct name for your printer, such
as HP-Setup-xx-Officejet Pro X576.
5. Install the HP printer software.
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When the Connection Options software screen is shown, select Wireless.
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When the list of detected printers is shown, select your HP printer, and then finish installing.
Change from printing over USB to a Wireless Direct connection
Follow these steps after setting up your printer with a USB connection.
1. Turn on your printer’s Wireless Direct connection.
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Press (X476 Series) or touch (X576 Series) the Setup
button from the control panel.
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Open the Network Setup menu.
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Connect the printer with HP Wireless Direct
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