Yay!!
Thank you!
After a little tinkering with the ports (didnt have virtual USB), it worked a treat on the DOT-whatever port....
Have sent a 'not nice' email to HP commenting on their astoundingly bad non-support to the use of these old-but-still-good printers on Vista. Naughty and I love the money saving tip here.
Thanks!!!!

If you are using Vista it's there in the control panel printers HP section. If your using XP go to the HP web site and download the driver from the support section.

This advise was given to me, GREAT FIX!

Hi

This was a workaround from a previous post on the same subject.

Thank you for the tip about the Photosmart 7200 drivers, it worked great.

Here is a step by step description of how to install.

1.) Go to device manager and make sure you remove any reference to the Photosmart 1215.

2.) Go to printers and manually install, right click in the open printers window and choose Run As Administrator>add printer.

3.) Add a local printer using the existing port: USB001(virtual printer port for USB)

4.) In the next window choose Manufacturer: HP, Printers: HP Photosmart 7200 series.

5.) Then hit next and away you go, you should have the little window asking if you want to print a test page, click yes and if all went as well as it did for me it should be printing a test page.

PS Make sure the printer USB is plugged in and printer is turned on.

It worked great, thanks for all the help everybody!