How to install & use a printer driver without actually having the printer?

I'm attempting to make a Life poster in iPhoto and I'm running into an issue with paper sizes that has been identified by other users as an issue in iLife 06. One suggestion I've seen is:
Therefore, you have to add a new printer and chose
one that can actually handle larger paper sizes. A
good one would be the HP Designjet 800PS. If you
added it to your printers and picked it you can
magically select form within larger print sizes.
What I can't figure out is how to add a printer that I don't actually have hooked to my computer to the printer queue so I can select it. I don't want to actually print to it, I just want to access the drivers so I can print to a PDF at a larger size than my actual printer allows.
I downloaded the HP 800PS drivers and install them, but I can't add them through the Printer Setup Utility because it apparently will only let me access printers actually attached to my computer. Is this right?
Or is this a problem for me because when I reinstalled the OS a year or so ago, I didn't install all the 2GB or so worth of printer drivers, I only installed the EPSON ones because that's what my printer was?
But then I think that isn't it, because I can't seem to add any printers at all because there are none hooked up to my PB at the moment.
Perplexed...
TIA.
1.25GHz PB G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1GB RAM

I'm not sure if this will work, but you could try adding a "dummy" IP printer and use the HP 800PS driver when you create it.
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