Printer Drivers missing on Lucid

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 00:39 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:20:45 -0600, Roy Strachan wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I've been grappling with a strange problem ever since I upgraded to
> > Lucid. Whenever I plug in a printer HP inkjet 3900(USB) which worked
> > fine with the previous version, I get a message saying that the system
> > is searching for drivers but this just stays on the screen even when
> > left overnight with internet access on. But my multifunction Samsung
> > 2160 installed without any hassle because I downloaded a linux driver
> > for it.
> > How can I get around this? Your assistance would be deeply appreciated.
> 
> Have you installed HPLIP from Symantec?
> 
> 
> 

HPLIP is in Ubuntu Software Centre.  It should include hpijs.