Trying to connect an HP LaserJet 4 using a USB to Parallel Adapter

I have tried a Belknap and a Tripp-Lite cable. In both cases my MacBook Pro "sees" the cable but not the printer. I have the driver I need. Each time I get 1 print. Any print jobs after the first get lost,requiring me to delete at the print queue. I wonder if I am neglecting to do something very basic here. Any ideas?
MacBook Pro,Mac OS X (10.7.2)

I know I join this discussion late. I am just now upgrading to Lion in earnest and the old Laserjet 4M is the last hurdle. In this thread, I have not heard of anyone trying the usbtb CUPS backend driver for USB printing in Mac OS X. This and Gutenberg 5.2.5 has worked for me under Snow Leopard. It has also worked seamlessly with a Windows XP virtual machine that I run in Parallels Desktop.
I am using a generic USB to parallel converter cable. At the time I bought it, there was discussion about the necessity of a cable allowing bidirectional communication. This one apparently did, it was cheap, so I bought it and I guess I lucked out. Tomorrow I am going to the office where my 4M is located and I am going to test a Lion installation located on a firewire external drive that was a simple upgrade from a clone of my current Snow Leopard installation. I have the latest Gutenberg driver 5.2.7 to install and a new copy of usbtb.
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