Comment 1 for bug 277404

I have isolated the cause of this to a problem in the openprinting driver file for the HP ColorLaserJet 2605 printer:

/usr/share/ppd/openprinting/HP/HP_Color_Laserjet_2605.ppd.gz

If you have a Hardy installation available, the workaround is to use the .ppd file that came with 8.04:

1. Open HPLIP and remove (uninstall) the printer
2. Open your browser and navigate to localhost:631 to enter CUPS. Click "printers" and remove the 2605 if it still shows as present. If prompted for username and password, use your normal Ubuntu username/password. Close the browser window.
3. Open a terminal window and restart CUPS (sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart)
4. copy the Hardy version of the 2605.ppd file (HP_Color_Laserjet_2605.ppd.gz) to /usr/share/ppd/openprinting/HP/
5. Open the HPLIP utility and install the printer from there. That should update CUPS at the same time.
6. test.

Alternate workaround if you don't care about doing things correctly:

In your Hardy installation, find the file /etc/cups/ppd/HP_Color_Laserjet_2605dn.ppd. Copy that file to your Intrepid's /etc/cups/ppd/HP_Color_Laserjet_2605dn.ppd (replacing the existing file) and restart cups ( sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart).