Yes, wot Gouli sed, or....
Oddly enough, with HP's reputation (a few years ago now) of bundling cr@p software with their printers, I refused to install the OEM stuff, and let Windows (prob. XP at the time) go away and find drivers. Huffed and puffed a bit, but did it. Nary a problem with any of the strange sizes and paper types I threw at it.
Then I had a hardware failure after about 200k copies. Junked the machine and had three different ones since. None of 'em as good.