Which printer for Leopard....?

Hi,
For reasons best known to apple and related to bootcamp, I had to upgrade to Leopard. Now, my HP 4255 all in one still exists as a printer in the eyes of my macbook, but printing from all programs has ceased: the job gets to the queue and stalls.
I have tried all of the resetting, Gimp Print, Gutenprint, Foomatic options I believe, but nothing. I understand this is an old printer and that it is unsupported in the new operating system, I also see the internet is littered with such storys. It transpires that the printer still happily chugs away by switching to windows of course, because i still use XP...
Can anybody suggest what Leopard will print to and scan from for a small (and I mean small...) home office? I would be delighted if there was an A3 option...
thanks guys, It's hard getting info out of apple, I'd be lost without the community of users....
Stu

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