Win 7 Computer can't find USB Printer on Win 8 Dual Boot Installation

Two different Win 7 computers on my network can't find the HP1160 USB connected printer on the Win 8 installation of my dual boot configuration. The Win 7 computer has no problem finding and installing the same printer when accessing the Win 7 installation of my dual boot configuration. Its interesting to note that it finds my networked Dell 1320c printer both at its network IP address and as a printer available "through" the Win 8 installation.

I have tried all the available installation methods: search (of course), browse and selecting the Win 8 computer, providing the computer/printername and finally supplying the Win 8 IP address. The Win 7 computer simply will not recognize the printer attached to the Win 8 installation. All the permissions are turned on for printer sharing as well as file sharing. Turning off the Norton and Windows firewalls doesn't help either.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here we are in "Hardware and Drivers". The drivers for the printer are no problem as it works well in both Win 8 and Win 7 from the host computer and fine in Win 7 from the network computer. In the same way the hardware communications between the computers works fine Win 7 to Win 7 and with file access to and from Win 8. Could it be a Win 8 bug... ??