HP Officejet Pro K550dtwn NOT 10.5 Compatible, HP considers it obsolete

I have just found out from HP support that they have decided NOT to write drivers for the Officejet Pro K550 duplexing printer for OSX 10.5
The HP officejet pro k550 duplex printing prints the second page upside-down.
The current driver, 2007 10/26 v. 9.7.1 DOES NOT correct this problem.
They do NOT note on their site with the driver that the problem will not be fixed. They consider the printer obsolete even though they continue to advertise it as being supported under 10.5.
Leopard shipped with print-only drivers, which means that they do not support any hp printing options, like duplex under Leopard. So the ones included on your Leopard install disk will NOT print duplex.
Here are some of the original posts:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7282125#7282125
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6134277#6134277
Message was edited by: lionzpaw
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If the Tiger drivers worked underneath Leopard, wouldn't HP just use the old drivers instead of doing nothing?
Possible but I doubt it, I have a feeling that the drivers had to be downloaded, even for tiger. Trying to remember the last time I reinstalled tiger.
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