Driver Laserjet 4+ Windows 7 64 bit

The referenced printer is connected to my wife's XP machine. I shared it by way of a computer share from my Win7 machine. After changing my OS from 32 to 64 bit it appears that there is no machine specific 64 bit driver.
I beleive the LaserJet 2200 Series PCL 5 driver will work with the referenced but I cannot find the 64 bit driver for it on HP's site.
Further, I'm not sure how to tell the OS, add printer, network how to use a driver different in name than that of the machine--nor where to put the driver assuming there is one?
Mark

I also couldn't find a 64bit driver for my HP device so I tried to install a 32bit driver "as administrator" and it worked. It may also work if you will extract the 32bit driver for Win 7 to get the driver .inf file. I have installed my printer by choosing the printer manually (set the IP address), the system found the printer and through "have a disk" and .inf file installed it. The printer works and I haven't connected it to my laptop (nor used a setup cd) at all..
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