Stuck on "searching for new drivers"

I've connected a Dymo LabelWriter 450 to the USB port on my Mac (after installing the Dymo software and restarting).
When I go into Add Printer and select the Dymo driver, I get a message saying "searching for new drivers" and a spinning beachball - and it never returns.
I searched the forum and there was a previous thread on the "searching for new drivers"problem that was closed without any resolution.

It would be really helpful if someone came up with a solution to this problem. I get this hang on 'searching for new drivers' with two different HP printers- both recognised by Bonjour but it seems impossible to add them. I only managed to get one of them working (and HP 5850) by installing an opensource HP driver (HPIJS 2.7.10 for Mac) designed originally for Linux users. To get this to work I first had to install foomatic and ghostsript for Mac OS X. See http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs
The second printer is an HP 2570 and this is still causing problems.

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