Hooking up HP laser jet4

I've got an oldie, but goody printer: HP laserjet4. I've bought a parallel port to usb connecter, but still cannot get my new Imac to print to this beast. Any ideas?

That "oldie, but goodie" printer does not have a compatible HP printer driver for Lion from HP. That said:
People who need to SCAN & PRINT without a compatible Lion driver from their manufacturer can use Apple's very basic "PRINT & SCAN" utility in System Preferences:
Click the Apple menu ( ), and then click System Preferences .
Click Print & Scan ( ).
Click Scan , and then click Open Scanner .
Click Show Details . The details of the scan display, including options to modify scan settings such as output type.Figure 2: Example of the Show Details scanning screen
Change any settings as necessary, and then click Scan .
The next window looks like this:
Hope this helps

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