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Did you delete the printer driver or the print queue The latter is a common name for what gets set up when you "install a printer" to an OS. To actually delete the driver file would take a bit of digging.
Have you tried installing the printer using the Ubuntu utility or the web interface? (http://localhost:631)
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
hplip is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic linux-headers-2.6.28-11
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$
What happens when you run hp-setup (in a terminal, as your user)? Post up any errors you see.
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ hp-setup
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 8.0
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode.
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$
USB, automatic: $ hp-setup -i --auto 001:002
Parallel, $ hp-setup -i -a -x /dev/parport0
automatic, no
testpage:
Parallel, choose $ hp-setup -i -b par
device:
Notes:
1. If no serial number, USB ID, IP, or device node is specified, the USB and parallel busses will be probed for devices.
2. Using 'lsusb' to obtain USB IDs: (example)
$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 011: ID 03f0:c202 Hewlett-Packard
$ hp-setup --auto 003:011
(Note: You may have to run 'lsusb' from /sbin or another location. Use '$ locate lsusb' to determine this.)
3. Parameters -a, -f, -p, or -t are not valid in GUI (-u) mode.
See Also:
hp-makeuri
hp-probe
error: option --qt3 not recognized
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$
Do you get any errors? Have you looked at http://localhost/:631 and what happens when you try to set up the printer using the Gnome system admin tools? Post up error messages/screen shots so we can see what's happening.
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