Printer connection failed after power outage

[Tim Tebbit]

Barbara Tobias wrote:
> I recently purchased an HP wireless printer 6500 e709n and have been
> using it quite happily with Ubuntu 9.04.  This morning we had a series
> of power outages and now when I attempt to print a test page, it tells
> me:
> 	Printer 'HP-Officejet-6500-e709n2' may not be connected.
> 
> However, we can print to this same printer on the same network with a
> Windows PC.  I'm not sure where to look to try to fix it.  I'm wondering
> if I need to remove the printer and reinstall.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	Barbara Tobias

I have the same printer. What I think happened when the power came back
up something beat the printer acquiring an address. Lets say the printer
is usually 192.168.1.101 and now it's 192.168.1.102 which would cause
this sort of problem. running..
'gksudo hp-setup' from a terminal should allow you to reconfigure the
device. Remember to remove the old one that is there also.