Installing a printer works on only one of two Macbooks

I have 10.7.5 on two Macbooks. One installs the Brother HL-5250DN from software already on the machine. It works fine.
The other Macbook wants to download the printer drivers from Apple despite the drivers already being on the machine. This printer was installed on this machine before and new drivers have been downloaded from the manufacturer.
Now it tries to download from Apple, then I get the message that the software is not available and to obtain it from the manufacturer, which I have already done.
However, I cannot stop it from going to Apple for the drivers, making it impossible to install.
Anyway to make it stop trying to download the drivers from Apple and use those that are already on the machine?

Yup, that did the trick. The other Macbook had sharing on.
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Yup, that did the trick. The other Macbook had sharing on.
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