HP Parallel Print Server Workaround

Every time I reinstall Windows, I have to setup the printers again.  I have a 3 port HP Parallel Print Server I got off Kijiji with an IBM Network Printer 12.  In order to be able setup the printers on the print server, I had to first install the printer and set the port to File:.  With Windows 7, you have to wait quite a while as Windows update builds the list of printers.  Once the printer is installed locally as printing to File:, you can run the HP Network Printer Install program to install the printer as a network printer on the print server.  The local version printing to File: can them be removed.