Printing on HP Officejet 6500 WITHOUT Eprint

I have a Mac that way back when I set up with our HP Officejet. The printer is installed on this laptop and I can print wirelessly without eprint. Now fast forward to now and I have a new Mac. 
I'm trying to install the HP Officejet 6500 to my new Mac as well but all I can find is downloads for Eprint. 
I don't want to use Eprint from my laptop. 
I just want to print from my laptop direct to the printer (which I can do with the other laptop) but I can't find any download support that IS NOT Eprint.
Please help. 

Hello there! Welcome to the forums @Nicoley ,
I understand you want to install your OJ 6500 on your Mac and do not want to use ePrint.
I will gladly do my best to help!
Please let me know which model of 6500 you have and which Mac OS X you are running and I will check out the drivers for you!
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