Windows 7 driver needed?

I purchased the HP Photosmart C4680 to be shared on a home wireless network from a Windows XP computer. The printer works fine on the computer on which it is installed. I also successfully added the printer to a laptop running XP and it prints fine.
However, I tried to add the printer the same way on my daughter's new Windows 7 laptop and although it seems to have found the printer, I cannot get it to print. Not even the test page. Do I need to install a Windows 7 driver?

I'm having a similar problem with a Canon MP780 printer and a new HPp6230y running under Win7.
If you put the printer on the HPp6230y, it gets the correct Win7 driver right away any it will print nicely. However, if you try to print from a XP machine on the network it can't. The problem seems to be that the HPp6230y lacks the XP driver. When attempting to share the printer with XP machines ....
On the HP-p6230y (Win 7) machine: Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers> double click the icon of the MP780 printer.
                            Note: Don't click Network Sharing Center, it's a dead end.
Next I clicked display printer properties and a wIndow pops up. Select sharing tab, click button Change Sharing Options.
At that point it says that if you're sharing computers are running different version of  Windows you need to install additional drivers. If you click the Additional Drivers button it assumes that you can provide the precise path to that driver. But I have no idea where that driver is located, what its name is whether from my original printer setup disc or on the computer where the printer is connected. 
If you put the printer on the XP machine it prints fine from that machine, but the HPp6230y (Win 7) can't print to it. It complains it can't find the driver.
On the HPp6230y (Win 7) machine:
Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Add a Printer > Add a Network / Wireless Printer > A list of printers appears, select printer.
Message: No Driver Found. Windows can't find a driver for Canon MP780 Series printer on the network....  blah blah..To locate oe manually clock OK. Otherwise.... blah blah .... consult your printer manufacturer's web site.
If I try to get it from my original Canon printer install disc, I can't find it. There's lots other bubndles software crap on there and tons of dll and inf files that are unrelated.
If I go to canon web site I get a self-extracting exe for XP but I dare not try execute that on my new Win7 machine 
I have verified that the network is working OK and sharing computers are fully trusted.
On the Win 7 machine I have exhaused all paths under Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center.  [DON'T take the Homegroup path - that only useful if all machines on the network are running Win 7 - onother time wasting nightmare]

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