Personal Laserwriter under System 7

I have a friend using an old Mac II ci (or cx - can't remember) under System 7 with the "tune up" applied. Her Personal Laserwriter ntx died and we bought a pristeen Personal Laserwriter LS. Trouble is, we don't have the System 7 printing tools disks any more. The printer came with System 6.4 disks that recognize they cannot be used with System 7. I downloaded the latest Personal Laserwriter 300 1.21 driver and it works fine on my System 9.22 Wallstreet. But, when we use that printer extension under System 7 and try to select the printer in the chooser, we get the error that the chooser is too old for that driver.
Anyone have a clue as to the least invasive way to get this working? She is happy with the computer and printer and does not have the money to upgrade.
Thanks,
Mike

Try using version 7.3 of the Chooser if you're using an older version.
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