Arggggh....that was the major downside when we bought a new PC and laptop with 7; printer incompatibility. We bought - and returned THREE - before we ended up with a Brother that could actually keep up. Very aggravating.
Otherwise, we love the simplicity of 7 after we'd had XP on the old machine.
I look for photo quality over speed, I don’t care how slow it is as long as the pics look good. That narrows down the choices though.