Having Some Problems With A Printer...Could Parallels Save The Day???

[JSiN]

hey....so heres my problem. I recently acquired an HP Laserjet 3200 from a friend, and spent countless hours trying to figure out why this thing WOULD NOT print anything but a line of some sort of post-script message, and then blank pages until i physically cancelled the job. Well i figured out the problem....THIS PRINTER IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MACS...
the 3200m (m for mac ) is the one that i need....but i dont. and i really need to use this laserjet...so thats when i started thinking about solutions, and being that i recently added 'Palallels' running XP to my MacBookPro, i am thinking that there could be a way this will work out...

what needs to happen here is that i want to send a file from my osx application, through Windows XP/Parallels, and then to the laserjet 3200, basically using Parallels as a bridge or whatever....

is this possible? and if so, could someone be so kind as to explain the steps, or point me in the right direction. many thanks

 

[JSiN]

...nobody has any help for me... and again, i was told by HP that this printer isnt compatible with osx, so basically i just need to know if parallels running xp will make this printer believe that its not connected to my macbookpro, and function as if it was running off a pc.

 

[dkp]

...nobody has any help for me... i know somebody out there could help me out with this... pretty please?? with sugar on top...and maybe even a cherry too!!

What is there in Windows that makes you think it can convert a Postscript stream to a LaserJet hpcl stream?

This page may be helpful: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_3200

 

[Mac Pro 5GB]

Looks like your driver is right here:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...dSeriesId=24354&prodTypeId=18972&refresh=true

 

[JSiN]

that is in fact the driver that HP shows for os x, but like i said above, after installing that exact driver nothing ever printed other than the same post script error, and then i ultimately learned tht it wasnt os x compatible at all....but hp wasnt sure if running parallels could bypass this situation... so on a whim i figured that maybe someone on the "parallels" specific site would have some guidance for me....and although i am totally grateful, the link above from dkp might as well be written in mongolian... i dont have a clue...im an artist still trying to get used to sitting at this thing for long hours.....
i hope this isnt asking for too much from anyone, but at this point i just need to know if i should keep my fingers crossed that theres hope for this!!!.

thanks y'all !!!