Need printer driver (HP printer) to work with Snow Leopard:

My Imac came with Tiger, and I recently had it upgraged (by Apple professionals) to Snow Leopard, but I need a printer driver for my HP Business Inkjet 1200. I got no help from HP. Any suggestions? (And I don't speak "computer-ese" so please spell it out in easy steps for this dinosaur. Thanks!)

probably my misuse of 'best' - by 'best' I meant one that actually operates properly with full functionality.
I have been using HP for a while and always find that there is one little bit of the app that does not work with Mac and in the past HP have always said 'oh well we don't design for Mac'.
What I want to know is, what works properly ?

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