Photosmart 385 driver and windows 8

I have just bought a windows 8 laptop and I can't upload the driver for my photosmart 385 printer.  I have an Epson printer and the driver for that I downloaded from the Epsom website with no problems but the 385 download from the Hp website won't download. Apart from throwing the printer out of the window, does anyboby have any suggestions?

Windows 8 automatically searches for the most recent driver for the 385 printer.
There is no HP driver.
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