[NTLUG:Discuss] USB printer?

[steve]

My computer got taken out in a storm recently - I replaced it with a 
cheap 'bare bones' Shuttle system which is happily running SuSE 9.3.

Unfortunately, I neglected to notice that the Shuttle has no
parallel printer port - and since my trusty HP OfficeJet K80
has not other kind of port - I'm kinda screwed.

So - should I:

* Seek some kind of gizmo to convert USB to parallel (or
   maybe regular RS232 to parallel, or Wireless to parallel)?
   Do such things exist?  Do they work under Linux?

* Dump the printer and buy a new one with a USB (or what?) port
   on it - on the grounds that printers are now cheaper than the
   ink cartridges they run on?

* Something else?

How well are these various options supported in SuSE 9.3 ?

(If all else faile, I can move the printer onto my firewall
machine and use remote printing - but that's running some
incredibly ancient version of Linux and has been stripped of
all non-essential software - so making this work would be a
considerable time-burden that I really don't want to face!)