Problem in Office 2003 with printer HP LJ 1300n

Hi,
I have a laptop with Windows 7 64bit and Office 2003. I have some printers over network and setted as default the HP LJ 1300n. It working good, but sometimes neither Word, neither Excel don't find any printer. Then I'll close all applications and saw in Task Manager a Word application and I cannot "kill" it... I must log-out and re-enter in Win and then works again... I've installed last drivers for that printer (Universal Driver). Is there any Office/Windows update to fix it?

Thanks in advanced

I agree it sounds like a printer issue, not an office issue.

I recommend you remove the universal driver and install the driver specificly for the printer. I've had issues in the past with the universal driver.

I support several HP printers here and all of them use the printer specific driver with no problems.

On that problem, all other programs like OOffice, pdf or testing to print a page works and print without any problems. And isn't the only printer that I cannot see, but all printers "disappears" (like 4 other network printers) and pdfcreator too. Just ask me if I want to install printer. And that error always come after some hours of work (writing and printing more than 100 pages). I've tried to find a specific driver but unlucky. On official page of HP have Universal Driver for Win7 of that printer.

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I'm using that drivers (HP Universal Print Driver for Windows PCL6 x64) for Win7 64bit... On site don't have other than UPD (for Win7 x64)

Your printer is supported by Windows 7. You'll need to click the Windows Update button at the Install the printer driver screen to update your list of drivers. You'll also have to settle for a PCL5 driver, but I suspect it's better than the UPD. At least give that a try.