OS9-within-OS10.3.9 printer question

I simply can't remember anymore how to configure OS9 to recognize my HP Laserjet and display it as an installed printer within OS9 application print dialog drop-downs...is there some genius old-timer out there who can give my brain a jump-start? Here's some info on my setup:
On my PowerPC G4 Powerbook I have a HD partition running system 10.3.9 (Panther) so that I can still boot up OS9 and run a few ancient applications.
On my Ethernet local network, I have a Xerox N2125 laser printer, and on USB I have an HP LaserJet 1200, so I can print to either of these, successfully, from within any OS10.3.9 application.
But when I try to print from within an OS9 application, the print dialog has a dropdown in which only the Xerox printer is listed. I'd like to be able to choose to print to the HP LaserJet, most of the time...not the Xerox.
The only other oddity I've observed is within Panther: when I go to System Preferences\Print and Fax\Set up Printers, and the printer list opens, both the HP and the Xerox are in my printer list, and I have the HP set as Default Printer, but in the first column of that list (which is labeled "In Menu" and consists of check boxes), the HP LaserJet's check box is checked but greyed out -it can't be changed whereas the Xerox's check box is not greyed, and is changeable. Not sure if this means anything, but it seems odd to me.

Are you attempting to print from OS 9 applications while running Classic or do you want to set up the LaserJet 1200 as the default USB printer, when booted in OS 9.x? Have you tried downloading the OS 9 drivers from HP?

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