Installing Printer drivers ONLY?

so... when i installed leopard i figgered i'd save some drive space by not installing ALL those printer drivers, just the hp's (i only ever owned hps). recently i inherited a brother hl 1440 (a monochrome laser). i went to the brother web site to find the driver, and the site says that the driver is on the leopard install disk.
so i went into the installer, and as far as i can tell, there is NO way to just install drivers without doing a re-install of the OS. i thought you USED to be able to quit the installer and just find the package, but leopard doesn't seem to allow that anymore.
any ideas on how to get the brother drivers off the leopard install disk??
TIA

Here's the driver for 10.4, which you could try to see if it works:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/dlf/000000/002100/d lf002189.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=hl1440_all&type2=1&os=26&flang=4&dlid=dlf 002189
My guess is that it should work fine, especially since it's the CUPS driver, which is an open source driver that's not platform-specific. CUPS is built into 10.4 and 10.5.

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