Officejet Pro L7580 appears as a network drive in Win7

I have a new Dell desktop with 64-bit Win7.  I have installed the printer with HP's latest 64-bit full software program downloaded from HP's website.  My L7580 all-in-one loads on my network as a disk drive.  When I click on the link it reports: "LOCATION NOT AVAILABLE.  Z:\ is not accessible.  An unexpected network error occured."  When I right-click on the link and select "Properties" it displays the properties of a typical disk drive and not the properties of a printer.  When I right-click the link and select "Disconnect" it disconnects this "Z drive".  The L7580 functions perfectly whether or not I leave this "Z drive link" in my network listing and whether or not I choose to disconnect the "Z drive".  At this point it is just an annoying anomaly.  However, I have a networked Lexmark black and white laser printer on this same network and the Lexmark does not exhibit this behavior.  I have a small home network (cable modem, Netgear 4-port router with two computers and these two printers plugged into the 4-port router.  The router assigns both printers their IP addresses and I can connect to each printer's internal web page with its respective information and settings just by typing their respective IP addresses into my browser (192.168.1.x).
Just curious if any of the technical forum members have any thoughts on this anomaly.  I can live with it but just don't want to if I don't have to.
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I don't think this is an "anomaly". IIRC, the printer has memory card ports. So when you install the printer software, the network drives are created as a reference to the memory card slots. They will appear even if you don't have any cards inserted. Even if you remove them now, they'll reappear after you restart the PC. All I can suggest to you is to ignore it.
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