Printing with my HP Laserjet 1100 in Snow Leopard & hpijs

I have the DB25 to usb cable connected to the mini-centronix to db25 cable that is attached to my printer.  I have downloaded the hpijs packages from the linux foundation.  I think this should work except, after adding the printer and send a job to it, the printer is paused.  I suspect it has something to do with the protocol - its not a network printer.  What are the steps to add the parallel printer directly attached to my macbook pro?
thanks in advance for your help.

Try using the alternative communications software usbtb.  Y:Ou can get it from http://buymelunch.org/printing/usbtb/   THis usually works better with the parallel to USB adapters.

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