Comment 4 for bug 538031

Ouch. Too bad. I was going to ask what driver you were using :-). My machine was using hpijs in karmic, and when I upgraded to Lucid it was picked up as hpcups, which was not working fine. From the KDE System Settings I reconfigured the printer to use hpijs (instead of the _recommended_ hpcups), and everything is fine.

Is this the default really? To use hpcups? Here, at least, it prints a full black block, which would empty an inkjet cartridge in just about a few pages (if the user doesn't realize). And those are expensive!