HP Universal Printing PCL6 (v5.4) Driver

Hi,
Excuse my ignorance regarding the following questions but I'm completely new to setting up a print server.
I've set-up a test print server on Windows 2003 32-bit R2, I wanted to test the HP Universal Printing PCL6 (v5.4) driver with a couple of our printers. The enviroment being used by our clients is Windows 7 32-bit, I've had problems in the past with installing drivers using the wizard on the print server because obviously it's going to add the server 2003/xp version of this driver which have not always been compatible with Win 7. So what I have done is install the driver onto one of our Win 7 clients and using print management I connected to our print server and added the driver it had installed so I would be adding the Win 7 driver version onto the print server. This does all appear to have worked fine and everything is printing as expected but I keep getting application errors all the time when you click on properties for any printer, these errors pop up on the server when you log in and appear in the error logs, the specific error is:
Faulting application rundll32.dll ,,,,, faulting module hpmsn118.dll < ----- one of the dll's from the driver package.
Any idea where this error is coming from? Shouldn't I be able to install the Win 7 version of this driver onto Server 2003 with no problems?
Regards,
Ross

Hi,
the very similar problem. HP printer (HP LJ 2050, HP LJ M603) and HP Univesal Pritner Driver version 5.5.
On Windows 2003 server with role of print server are in Application Event log messages:
Faulting application rundll32.exe, version 5.2.3790.3959, faulting module hpmsn130.dll, version 0.3.1563.12834, fault address 0x0002b895
Some users (Windows XP SP3) have problem to print to one of these printers and their error messages are different based on application they used. Excel show Printer is not available, when the user tried to show printer properties then directly saw Application failure.... Interesting is that some of users are able to print without problems on same HW and operating system. All users have the same user privileges - Domain Users.
It looks like the problem is in case the application is trying to check printer status or features from printer driver.
Hello HP technical support, any hints ?
Thanks

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