USB Printer not showing up on `control printers`, but showing up on `devmgmt.msc`

I have a USB printer (D110a) that was installed using the HP official driver pack previously, and worked fine. It has no operating failure. When I connect it to the Windows 7 PC it always worked with, I can hear the sound of a new USB device being recognized, and can see it correctly listed on devmgmt.msc . But control printers remains blank, and I CAN print using that printer, through the print dialog called by every program. What could be preventing me from seeing it on control printers ? It is annoying and I would like to be able to fix it.

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