Deskjet 6988 printer with Windows 7

I have a Deskjet 6988 printer connected to my desktop PC running Vista Home Premium. I just bought a laptop which is running Windows 7. I have a home network that allows me to share the printer. I read that some printer features won't work with Windows 7. Apparently the automatic duplex printing feature is one of them. Has anyone come up with a work around, does HP plan on coming out with new drivers to work with Windows 7?

I also have HP Deskjet 6988 with duplex cababilities, but since I have upgraded to windows 7, I cannot duplex. Has anyone found a solution???

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So, my printer is installed on my laptop. The driver is the most recent, intalled today from HP.com and I don't have a software disk to use for a setup wizard.
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Through a lot of trial and error, I actually figured it out myself. I did a lot of jumping around, so hopefully I remember everything I did:
1) Install the printer driver using the disk or download.
2) Connect the printer to the router using an ethernet cable, which looks like a big phone cord (no need to connect the printer to your laptop.)
3) Bring up the laptop's system "search" on your laptop and in the search type "Network" then click on "Network" link to open it.
4) You should see the printer icon listed under your computers and other devices already found on the network.
5) Double click/tap on the printer icon and it will open the printer's "web page" in your browser.
6) Click/tap the "Networking" tab near the top of the scren.
7) In the left sidebar, under "Connections," click "Wireless" to open it.
8) Start and use the wizard to enter your router information. (Make sure to give the printer a distinct name here, so you can distinguish it from any other printers listed on your laptop. For example, I named mine "Deskjet 6988 Network")
9) Unplug the ethernet cord from the printer.
10) If your wireless printer doesn't show up in the list of printers when you go to print something, you have to add it:
11) Open the laptop system search again and type "Devices and printers" and click/tap the link.
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13) Add the networked printer and run the test print to make sure it works. Make it your default printer and can delete any of the other 6988 printers listed if you want to.
14) You should now see your networked printer in the list of printers when you go to print something.
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Now, however, I have installed the 64 bit version of Windows 7 operating system and the AUTO DUPLEX does not work and is not shown as being available on the PROPERTIES menu of the printer.
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Hi Aaron,
Make sure the Automatic Duplexing option is enabled:
Enter Control Panel > Devices and Printers.
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Click the Device Settings tab.
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03168175&lc=en&cc=us&destPage=document&dlc=en
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We have just obtained a new machine with Windows 7 and connected the existing Deskjet 930c via a usb cable.
Under windows XP it was possible to select double sided printing and a prompt was displayed on the screen to turn the paper round.
This is not happening under windows 7. Is there something we have not done? Or is it not possible any more.
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Any ideas anyone - we do a lot of double sided printing and we hav spent hours trying to sort this out.

Please look at the HP Support page,
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00098827&lc=ja&dlc=ja&cc=jp
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We have just obtained a new machine with Windows 7 and connected the existing Deskjet 930c via a usb cable.
Under windows XP it was possible to select double sided printing and a prompt was displayed on the screen to turn the paper round.
This is not happening under windows 7. Is there something we have not done? Or is it not possible any more.
It does go through the motion of double sided printing but does not stop to change the paper.
Any ideas anyone - we do a lot of double sided printing and we hav spent hours trying to sort this out.

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Hi Tom.
Sorry to inform you, this printer is not supported in Windows 8 and cannot be used with the operating system.
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=295930&docId=emr_na-c03168175&docLocale=...
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