Comment 67 for bug 96454

HP has provided a tool now to easily download the firmware for all their printers which need a firmware file. So you need not to compile the foo2zjs driver package or create a print queue with HP's hp-setup any more.

If you have HPLIP 2.8.12 (on Jaunty) do:

sudo hp-plugin

and follow the instructions on the screen. This downloads and installs the firmware files for all HP printers which need such a file. After that it looks for existing print queues of such printers and uploads the firmware files into them immediately. So you will be able to print from all auto-generated queues for these printers immediately after the tool has finished.

I plan to integrate the call of the tool into system-config-printer.

An additional hint: On a default installation of Jaunty you will perhaps get presented a text mode interface in your terminal window. To get a graphical interface, run

sudo apt-get install hplip-gui

before running hp-plugin. Note that this installs some MB of additional packages.