Deskjet 3050A J611 needs power-cycle to work wirelessly

Been putting up with this for ages but made a concerted effort to solve it the last day or two, with no success.
The issue is that the printer still appears on the network, ie it shows on the router page, and I can additionally ping it from a PC and get a response, and it appears as "Idle" in the OS X printing section....but it doesn't respond to either printing or scanning requests. Just seems to get stuck.
If I then power cycle the printer, it works again for a while. Then, I come back a while later, whether it be hours or days, and the thing doesn't work again.
I disabled auto-off, made no difference.
I gave it a static IP via DHCP, made no difference. Logged onto its web page and gave it a static IP that way and that made no difference either.
I thought maybe it's my wireless network (although everything else connected to it works fine), so I even plugged in a spare Apple Airport Express and created it's own hidden wireless network connected to my main network. Again, it worked for a while, but then stopped working when I tried it again this morning. The Airport Express was positioned right next to the printer, so it's not about the signal.
I'm not sure what else I can try. It seems that there is a bug in the firmware or something - I have read a lot of similar reports across the web.
For some reason it enters a state where it appears to be on the network, indeed responds to a ping, but does not work properly.
My OS X is 10.9, but I've also seen the same issue when printing from iOS devices - i.e. when it's in this non-working state, iOS print requests also fail, so I don't think it's driver related.
Can only be the hardware, right?

Just to add a bit more by way of diagnostics.
Just had it happen again and I tried to navigate to the printer's page in my browser and although it accepted the IP address it didn't load a page, just left the screen blank.
I then printed out the Printer Status Report, which shows everything normal, ie the expected IP address, Network Status : Ready, Active Connection Type : Wireless.
Yet neither printing or scanning work, or accessing the printer's web page.
I then went into the HP Utility, via Printers & Scanners in OS Settings, and attempted to print a test page, which I believe bypasses the driver. This caused the connection to the printer to be lost completely. After doing that, pings no longer responded either. Likewise, trying to access the printer's web page subsequently time out.
It was as if printing the test page finally killed it off.
In fact, when i looked at the printer's screen it was just white, and pressing the power button caused it to reboot.
Now it works again, everything is accessible, but I know that next time I come to try and use it the chances are it will have got itself into the bad state again.
While it might not seem a huge inconvenience to have to power cycle the printer in order to be able to use it, it's actually far from ideal because I've got kids who want to be able to print stuff out when they want, and the printer is at the bottom of the house.

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I am sorry to hear about your frustration. I understand that you are trying to download a driver for your HP Deskjet 3050a J611 series printer, and I am happy to help you!
This is the only place to download the drivers. HP Deskjet 3050A e-All-in-One Printer - J611g Drivers, if you are using Windows 7 or above you can also use the HP Printer Install Wizard for Windows. Depending on the Operating System you are using, you also have the option of ordering a physical CD.
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I would like to assist you today with installing your HP Deskjet 3050A e-All-in-One Printer for a USB Cable connection on your Mac OS X 10.10 computer. Now just so you are aware, due to the age of your printer HP has not released a downloadable Full Feature Software and Driver package for your printer on the Mac OS X 10.10 Operating System. There hasn't been a Full Feature Driver package available since Mac OS X 10.8. Therefore, we are relying solely on your Apple Updates to install the HP Driver V3.0 package for your machine. I am going to walk you through some steps below to manually load the driver package and ensure it is correctly installed to resolve this issue. Can I please have you follow the steps below.
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Please respond to this post with the result of your troubleshooting. Thanks for reaching out to the HP Support Forums. Good luck!
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