Not at all, the old, chunky office printers you get for cheap work even without any special driver or so, just postscript. (You might get better quality for pictures with the original driver, but for simple letters it just works.)
Edit: Where HP really sucks is the consumer market.
If we went back to that, I'd probably immediately miss the days when objects in our day-to-day were attainable for one Euro or so :-)