Originally Posted by Mike Bracknell
Incidentally, with HP printers not giving you an installable driver from the downloadable packages from their website, if you are building a print server and get stuck with drivers and can't get the universal driver for the printer, start the install with the HP package and watch the temp directories whilst the install goes on - the drivers are usually unpacked from the .exe during install and then subsequently deleted, so if you can pause halfway through the install and grab the drivers you won't need all the HP software guff that goes with it all.
I've done that before, oh yes!
Installed a fairly old HP printer on W7 the other day - there's a button next to "Have Disk" in the wizard, marked "Windows Update". Worked beautifully - selected correct printer from updated (exhaustive) list, job done.