hp laserjet 1012

Am running Vista Home Premium, 32 bit with all current critical updates installed. I cannot get Vista to recognize this USB printer hp laserjet 1012. I have read the previous posts on this forum about this problem and tried the solutions given. No luck. This printer used to work under Vista, but not now. I did download and install the latest drivers from HP during one of my attempts to "Add a Printer" so they are there. I really want to use this printer. (I do have a Canon ip3600 inkjet (or is it bubblejet) which is a nice printer but uses a lot of ink. The ink for these printers seems more expensive than rocket fuel. I would rather not use it for ordinary text printing which I do a lot of.) Any more suggestions for getting this printer to work would be welcome. Thanks.

By the way, has anyone got this printer to work under Window 7.0?

Never mind people. I got it to work now. When I did the "Add a Printer" thing, I had not related the printer to DOT4 port (Generic IEEE 1284.4 ) . I re-did with this as the port and voila! (I got this from a more recent post on this forum that I had overlooked earlier. )