I've gone from W7HP 32-bit to the 64-bit version this week, and have discovered that my three year old Canon laser printer will not work at all with this software. 32-bit support is there, and I was happily using it from the day W7 came out. Is there a particular reason that the 64-bit OS is not supported?
Why no support for a fairly new printer?
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Microsoft force hardware venders to provide 64bit drivers as well as 32 these days, don't know if that applys to ~3 years ago. If you can unpack the 32bit driver to a folder than try to manually update the device from Device Manager, point it to the location of the .inf file
It's a good way to make you buy a new printer! 
If you've still got another 32 bit machine lying around you could try this:
http://hubpages.com/hub/No-64-bit-Printer-Driver-No-Problem
or dual boot with your 32 bit Win 7 (not that I'd want to do that myself).
If you've still got another 32 bit machine lying around you could try this:
http://hubpages.com/hub/No-64-bit-Printer-Driver-No-Problem
or dual boot with your 32 bit Win 7 (not that I'd want to do that myself).
Well, it's no more than three years old, and that equates to fairly new in my eyes - it's not as if laser technology is advancing at the same rate as most of the components in my new PC. I could understand it if I was trying to get a three year old CPU/mobo/GFX card to work, but a printer?
What's worse is that Canon have provided 64-bit drivers for a host of other printers and scanners of the same or older era. Thankfully my LiDE 60 scanner (about five years old) is supported.
Going HP next time I think...
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As mentioned above the Vista drivers should work.
Under the hood Windows version "7" is actually classified as 6.1 and so you can usually use drivers for version 6.0 which is Vista:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724832(v=vs.85).aspx
Under the hood Windows version "7" is actually classified as 6.1 and so you can usually use drivers for version 6.0 which is Vista:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724832(v=vs.85).aspx
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