Printer not working on Lucid 10.4

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Sat, 08 May 2010 06:52:13 -0500, Larry Shields wrote:

> *I have a HP Deskjet 5550 printer, for which lucid does not see, when I
> am trying to set it up...Using a parallel cable for connection when I
> use the >system>administration>printing app the server shows new but I
> can not add a new printer...
> 
> I have even downloaded the newest HPLIP driver for this printer but it
> still will not let me install it...So has anyone had this problem in
> setting up your printer, if so I would like to know how you did it...
> 
> It has allways worked in every release of ubuntu, but not in
> Lucid...Hummm
> 
> Thanks Larry

http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_5550.html 
says your printer should work with Ubuntu 10.04 . You can even get help 
from HP directly: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html .

Good luck!

    -Frans