Printer on & connected but will not print

I have a HP Photosmart 6525 all in one printer. I have a HP Pavilion TouchSmart 23 all in one computer. At one time i had the wireless as well as the USB cord set up to print items. not sure when or what happened but i am unable to print now. wehn i go to my document to print and hit the print button, the following message pops up..."Before you can perform print related task, such as page set up or printing a document, you need to install a printer. I go to my Control Panel and to Printer and Devices and i see that i have my printer there. I printed out a Wireless Network Test Page and everything is on there....Wireless On, Wireless Working, Signial Quality Good..etc....etc...I connnect the USB cord and still cannot print.....
what am i doing wrong? Also when i go to control panel to try and add a printer i get the following message ..." Windows cant open add printer...Local print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler or restart the machine. I cannot find the driver disk to reinstall....I dont want to have to go and buy another printer

goblue41377 -- I'm sorry you're having problems getting the driver.
I have tested the driver download on Internet Explorer as well as Chrome
Let me know are you able to access the following directory through FTP?
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software12/COL43742/mp-108722-3
If so click on the file PS6520_1315-1.exe

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