I suspect although your printer is now working with wireless, it's not really using the 5 GHz network spectrum. Most 5 GHz capable routers can set up both a 5 GHz connection and a 2.4 GHz connection for backwards compatibility with devices that aren...
Found another option to accomplish the same thing on my Canon Pixma MX492 printer. I'm using a mobile hotspot (with FoxFi) on my tablet so there is no WPS button. But rather than pressing the "Stop" button I just let the "Connecting" option time ou...