10.3.9 upgrade and printer problem

As a house cleaning initiative I decided th upgrade the venerable "ruby iMac" (slot-loading, CRT, circa 2000) from OS 9.0 to 10.3 because I had a spare license & full retail CD. Took a while because I had to do upgrades to do upgrades to do the upgrades needed to install 10.3, but all went surprisingly smooth and all the files I needed were easy to find (try that with a Dell...) and all is working EXCEPT I can't get the iMac to recognize the HP3390 all-in-one printer that sits on the home LAN.
Add A Printer comes up but the printer isn't displayed in the possible choices. I can see other computers on the network from the iMac so I know basic networking is working. The HP printer installer is at best b**y but runs and terminates apparently normally with no errors. I only created one Admin user in the iMac knowing that multiple user can sometimes cause problems for substandard installers.
Anyone have any hints or what to try next?
Thanks,

On the Add-a-Printer pane, the top box is the protocol choice. Mine defaults to Appletalk, but there are six other possibilities and I have several AppleTalk printers so I don't know if that is the default.
Unless you know it is an AppleTalk-capable printer, the best choice by far is Rendezvous/Bonjour. Then wait a quarter minute and see if it can find any printers using that protocol.
hp web site says that 3990 is not enough to identify a specific product.

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