HowTo: Get your HP laserjet 1000 working in Ubuntu

1. Download the driver source from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/
For example:

$ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz

2. open it and extract it.
For example:

$ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ cd foo2zjs

3. Get the driver image for hp lj 1000

$ ./getweb 1000

Comment: If it complains about "getweb: no such file" or something, you'll need to do a

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ make

But I think that this step is unnecessary.

4. Make a new device 'node' that is your printer. That is, you probably already have one, at least I had; /dev/lp0. But you should make a new one, somehow the assumed path by some programs seems to be /dev/usb/lp0. (This was the essential step for me, which no other howto seemed to mention)
Do for example do this:

$ sudo mkdir /dev/usb
$ sudo cp sihp1000.img /dev/usb/lp0

5. We need cups to find your printer, that is find the new node. So change the DeviceURI in /etc/cups/printers.conf to file:///dev/usb/lp0.
For example:

$ sudo nano -w /etc/cups/printers.conf
[Comment out the existing DeviceURI line (by adding a # infront of it) and add]
DeviceURI file:///dev/usb/lp0

6. Restart cups so that it gets updated. For example

$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

That should do it. If not, restart from 3, do the comment, and also do the

$ sudo make install
$ sudo make install-hotplug
$ sudo make cups

and then continue from 4.

Good luck.