HP DeskJet 6980 or 6940 printer in Mac OS 9?

These new printers come with Ethernet, AirPort (option), Bluetooth (option), PictBridge and USB support. Additionally, no expensive colour cartridge is required to run the printer and a duplex module is available too. However in contrast to the predecessors DeskJet 5850, 6620 and 6840, HP has dropped the Mac OS 9.1 support!
Does anyone know how it is possible to use the DeskJet 6980 or 6940 via Ethernet in Mac OS 9? Has anyone played with such a beast (5850 onwards) on a Mac with only 64 MB of RAM?
Because the installer of the HP DeskJet 6800 series requests for 128 MB of RAM, I installed the driver on a better machine and extracted all the files to this 64 MB beast. Was not very stable - could not test fully because I do not have such a DeskJet yet - although I am sure I have extracted everything. Probably they use fixed file paths...have not tried.
Has anyone experience with these printers or even better alternative bargains? All I need is an inkjet Ethernet printer which runs from Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS X v10.4 sharable between at least to Macs.

Well, I haven't tested anything w/ OS 9 on my new 6940, but your best chance for a reasonable printer able to those things is to find a 6840 before they're completely phased out.
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Did you delete the printer in Devices and Printers and re-add it?
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Cause I followed the guidelines in the manual but never succeded.
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Here are the instructions that got me through this.
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I am trying to network my hp deskjet 6940 printer via a new win 7 64 pc. The printer is visible but shows as "offline" and will not respond.
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Borneodiver,
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