Thanks to  "eugeneois", with great persistence I got it to work.

After unclicking ""Open "safe" windows after downloading"" on attempting to open the file, a message instructed me that I need Stuffit 8.0 or above to open it.

After updating the Stuffit, if you had a previous version of the Hp driver, use Hp Uninstall to remove any fragments of any previously installed Hp series d driver. This took quite a while for the uninstall to occur. The listing in "Force Quit" showed that the uninstaller was having difficulty. After forcing it to quit and trying again I just left it for quite a time, and found upon returning that the uninstall was successful.

After the first installation attempt, the program could not locate the printer on the USB. After uninstalling again, and reinstalling, the program finally discovered the printer on the USB and seems to be working well.