HP Laserjet Printer and Vista

I bought a new HP color LaserJet Pro MFP M277dw yesterday. I took it home and hooked it up and tried to run the setup disk on my HP laptop with Windows Vista. The disk said it was not compatible with Vista. The existing software on my computer I've always used with past printers said the software didn't load and won't open and to contact HP. So after hours of work I downloaded and installed several of the drivers from the HP download page. This did get the printer to print, but the HP scanning software doesn't work. I spent 3 hours with online chat last night to no avail. Basically I'm being told that the full feature software isn't available for Vista although it says on the box Vista compatible. HP needs to issue updated software or a patch to allow the scanner to function through the meant software and whatever else is on the setup disk.

Your HP Color Laserjet 2840 is compatible to Mac OS X.
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