Mountain lion -hp designjet 5500 plotter

Will mountain lion print to an hp designjet 5500 plotter that currently prints from Snow Leopard?
This is a 42" plotter, not the PS version but the software in Snow Leopard will treat this as a large printer & I can print from both CAD programs and others such as adobe reader. 
It appears Hp does not have a specific driver and has not since MAC OS 10.5

See if these two help...
Connecting MacBook Pro with Lion 10.8.2 to HP Designjet 1055cm?
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    Hi guys..!!
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    This article lists all of the printer models for which Apple distributes the driver:
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