How do I Stop Neighbors from Printing on our Printer (HP 3510)

We have a shared Wi-Fi network (on a college campus), and our neighbors (who speak little English) keep printing on our printer.
We assume this is a mistake, and they have a similar printer, so they are choosing the wrong printer.
How do we block them, or change our printer so it doesn't show up in their list of available printers?
I can't disable wireless printing, because then we won't be able to print from our laptops. I tried to find a way to "password protect" the printer, but I can't figure out how to do that.
We can't afford to keep letting them waste our ink, how do we stop this?
Thanks.

Hi,
The best approach to use in your situation is to use the wireless direct feature of your printer.
You can use the wireless direct funtion of your printer by turining on the wireless button on the front of the printer. This allows the printer to generate it's own wifi singal that you can connect to through any wireless device.
To find the wireless password, simply hold down the wireless direct button for more than 3 secs and it will print the password on plain paper (make sure paper is loaded). Make sure the wirless direct password protect feature is enabled - this way anybody trying to print to your printer will need to enter the wireless direct password.
I've included a link below to some information on wireless direct.
http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Deskjet-3510-e-All-in-One-Printer-series/5157460/model/515748...
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