OK, I've tried just about everything to get my 1215 to work, unsuccessfully. Here's my problem.

The computer's new; it's not an XP upgrade. So, the original HP 1215 XP drivers aren't on it, and I can't get the printer to show up in the printer window. So, I can't upgrade the driver. If I just add a 7200 driver printer to USB001 or to the DOT4 port, the printer doesn't work.

Someone suggested right click on the open printer window and click on Run as administrator>install manually.

I can't seem to find any place where "Run as Administrator" shows up when I do this. The only manual installation that I can find is the button at the top that starts the wizard that ends up saying I can't do it. Just plugging in the printer starts the wizard that asks me to tell it the address where the driver is located. I can't seem to find on the hard drive which file is the 7200 driver. It unfortunately doesn't go to the printer driver page automatically, like when you try to update the driver.

So, I think I have three choices. Buy a new printer like HP wants me to, figure out a way I can get the computer to recognize the HP 1215 as a printer so I can upgrade the driver to the 7200, or find the file that contains the 7200 driver on the hard drive, and use it to install the printer.

Anybody got any ideas on how to proceed? I'm ready to choose option 1.

Thanks.