hp printer update on aug 8th broke my printing capability

I have a MacPro running Lion... all latest updates.

The HP Printer Drivers release on 8/8/2012 has now made it impossible for print anything. I have an HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP.... which is connected via Ethernet.

Anything I attempt to print - whether from Safari, textedit, Microsoft Word, anything... the print options screen appears asking for what pages you wish to print, and once I click on "Print" everything freezes for about 40-45 seconds, then the application (Safari, textedit, Word, etc) crashes and closes.

The error report window appears with its usual info and saying it will send the report to Apple... and that's as far as I get.

I have turned Mac OFF, turned printer OFF, etc.

The sad thing is.... my wife can print to the printer from her Windows PC laptop.... but I can't print from the Mac.