HP Officejet 8500A - HP Full drivers or built in OS X - HELP

Hello:
I was hoping to install my new HP OfficeJet 8500A plus this afternoon. I downloaded the driver but also noticed a few documents on the HP website telling me the printer drivers are built in.
Questions for the experts:
1) Generally, what are you OS X 10.6 fold doing? Adding drivers from the manufacturers site or accepting whats in OS X?
2) HP drivers are large and historically, HP apps have been buggy (My only experience is with Windows). Would I be better served to just go with the trusted OS X drivers that are built in.
3) Looks like I'll looks some functionality like the HP Scan app if I just use the built in drivers. Seems like that is a front end app that I can command to grab a scanned document. It has options like OCR, JPeg, PDF. It can email which I don't care about. I am interested in having the OCR capability to scan and create an editable document. So, would I have built in OCR capabilities with just using the OS X drivers?
4) For those of you with 8500A's, what did you choose and why. Will I miss important functionality by not using the HP downloaded full driver package?
Another minor factor is that I am running on an SSD drive and I am trying to reduce unnecessary file clutter and size.
Thanks for your help,
Kevin

I installed one of these printers yesterday for a friend.
The mac instantly saw the print on the bonjour network and installed the drivers. I then installed the drivers from the CD/DVD to add the other functions. All seems to be running well, scanning / printer etc.
I understand about the SSD, and space.
I do not know weather the built in drivers cover the scanning / OCR portion of the printer, I believe you might require some of the other software for that.
I might suggest installing the built in driver, and seeing what you get, if anything is missing, try installing parts of the HP CD, the functions you just need (custom install, I think you can do that).

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