HP Laserjet 1300 backend failed

I have a HP laserjet 1300 printer that used to work, and stopped working for no apparent reason. I hit print for web pagers, documents, etc and get this error: "backend failed". My other HP printers work, just not this laser jet. I've deleted the printer. I have installed the printer via IP and via bonjouvi (sp) with same result.
Any ideas?
Thank you

I tried the generics you suggested and they didn't work either.
Status: Stopped
Print Server: Local
Driver Version: 10.4
Default: Yes
Shared: No
URI: socket://laser.home.dhlarson.net/
PPD: HP LaserJet 1300 Series
PPD File Version: 19.8
PostScript Version: (2014.116) 0
CUPS Version: 1.7.2 (cups-372.4)
Scanning support: No
Printer Commands: AutoConfigure Clean PrintSelfTestPage
CUPS filters:
hpPostProcessing:
Path: /Library/Printers/hp/filter/hpPostProcessing.bundle/Contents/MacOS/hpPostProces sing
Permissions: rwxr-xr-x
Version: 19.9.0
Fax support: No
PDEs:
hpPostScriptPDE.plugin:
Sandbox compliant: Yes

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