the answer in this posting solved this problem for me.

In short:

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sudo getweb 1018

sudo hplj1018

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che--8810

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Instead of installing the proprietary plugin, try HPLIP. (Since 11.04 is beta, this
may be a bug as well)
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answered Apr 26 '11 at 20:37

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Dananjaya
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I had the same problem
Deleted the printer installation, turned it off and unplugged the USB connector
Opened the Synaptic Package Manager and removed HPLIP, HPLIP DATA, and HPLIP
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Shut the computer down, then restarted and installed the removed packages. Connected
the USB cable and turned the printer on. The system installed the printer automatically
without any plugin downloads and printed normally. Hope this helps
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current
distributions provide a version of HPLIP software during initial installation. However, it is
quite possible, that you are not operating on the latest version available from our site. This may be important
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Installation
First,instructions
check to see if HPLIP is already installed by running one of the commands listed below; however, your
distribution
maywizard
have specific package manager commands that are not described here. Therefore, while these
Installation
commands
should
work in most situations, you may want to refer to your distribution documentation for the
Supported printers
correct
way to configure and use HPLIP.
System
requirements
Debian package based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mepis, etc):
Run in a terminal window:

You may see something that looks like this:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold|Status=Not/Installed/Configfiles/Unpacked/Failedconfig/Halfinstalled
|/Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinstrequired/X=bothproblems(Status,Err:uppercase=bad)
Description

1.7.30ubuntu1HPLinuxPrintingandImaging

If you see "ii" in the first column before "hplip", then HPLIP is already installed. If you want to use the currently
installed version of HPLIP, try running hp-setup in a terminal shell. See belo