Drivers and for shared HP Officejet pro K850

I'm trying to set up a connection to a HP Officejet pro K850 printer, with the appropriate drivers. The printer is shared from a PC across a wireless network that needs a username and password.
I've connected to the printer OK and can do a basic print but I wanted to install the correct drivers on the Mac. I couldn't find them listed in the Printer utility and tried to do an install of the latest 10.4 driver from HP but that didn't seem to work. The installation says its successful, then a window pops up saying where is the printer? I select wireless network and nothing happens.
My questions are:
Where did the driver install and where can I look for it in the system to confirm its there?
Do I need to complete the last step in the HP wizard or should it just work if I was successful with a direct connection previously?
I'm expecting to see HP Officjet K850 when I go to select a driver to the printer in the Utility or other OS X printer dialogs.
Thanks

HP has provided a Carbon driver, where they have specified/restricted what comm protocol(s) it uses. Yours is USB-only. To use the comm protocols provided in OS X by the CUPS system, you need a CUPS driver. You'll need to install a third-party driver from:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
It'll be either Gutenprint or hpijs + ESP ghostscript.
Drivers (PPDs plus plug-ins) go in HD/Library/Printers.

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There are two kinds of drivers on OS X - Carbon and CUPS. Not like on Windows, where a driver is a driver. Manufacturers of non-postscript printers mostly provide Carbon drivers, where they can specify which comm protocol it uses. Your HP driver is written for USB only. You need a CUPS driver to use the network protocols, which are all part of CUPS.
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