Use HP network printer in OS 9.2.2 without official driver?

Hello!
I have a HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-one which is connected over ethernet to a router. I also have an old PowerMac G4 (and an iMac G3) that boot into OS 9 and 10.3 and/or 10.4. While I usually use the G4 under Tiger, I'll often boot into OS 9 to work on things that either won't run under OS X or require a lot of CPU/RAM, such as Photoshop, to avoid the greater system overhead with OS X.
While the printer is capable of scanning, I'd just like to be able to print from OS 9.2.2 - which it seems HP doesn't officially support anymore. The driver for the printer will only work under 10.3.9 and up. This brings up two questions:
1. Where do the third-party printer drivers that Apple includes with OS X come from? Do they have OS 9 versions?
2. I know the G4 can print to a network printer (via the Chooser), but what is required for this to work? That is, do I need a driver, or can I choose one of the pre-existing "printer" settings in the chooser?
Thanks for any help,
-Dan

A little more insight on your number 1:
Mac OS X uses Postscript as its central imaging language. This should have meant that printer support was a cinch. It was, provided your printer could do Postscript level 2. All the old LaserWriters that were Postscript level 2 or better moved right into Mac OS X without skipping a beat. Start with the Postscript printer driver, add a PPD that details the printer's special features, and you were done.
Postscript level 1 printers were left high and dry until CUPS/Ghostscript/Gimp-Print/GutenPrint invented a post-processor and turned Postscript level 2 into Postscript level 1.
The ImageWriter (not a Postscript printer) was left high and dry until someone decided that by using Ghostscript and CUPS, you could simulate a Postscript printer, do the rasterization on the Mac, and send the raterized output to the ImageWriter. and AppleTalk Imagewriter. And ImageWriter LQ. and about 800 other raster printers, including many inkjets.
Do these drivers have OS 9 versions? Sorry, No.

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