Stop windows updating printer driver

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I have an HP Envy 6200 Photo printer. I cannot print via the USB port following a recent Windows 10 Home update. Digging deep showed that the current driver was of type 4. Using the search for an alternative driver with Windows update threw up the 2006 type 3 driver. I installed it and printing via the USB port resumed. However, Update decided this was wrong and replaced it with the type 4 driver again. I have repeated this several times with the same result. A recent Insider Preview claimed to include a fix for the Type 4 printer driver reporting an error. This update has been installed but

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