| With the disk received with the printer in hand I never Googled for an
| alternative. Thanks for the above link, I downloaded the 26 mb file
| and tried to install in another XP machine. It still calls for
| installing from M$ the .net files, a 65 mb download !!!
|

I think the 26 MB version is the one Paul is talking
about. I also downloaded it out of curiosity. I also find
no .Net-dependent files in the package. As Paul said,
you might try installing through the .inf file. You could
then run the MSI, which *I think* will give you just
the applet for managing the printer. But I don't know
whether either of those things will work.