Hi, David; I'm not Till, the guy who did the the hplip update. I have talked with him. he wrote hplip 3.10.6 to go into cups 1.4.4-6ubuntu2 in Meerkat. I looked around and found hplip 3.10.6 separately, without any documentation for dependencies. Since development notes indicated that 3.10.6 had been written to go into cups with Meerkat I decided to wait the few remaining days until Meerkat was released. Hplip 3.10.6 is downloadable through Package Manager, and I imagine that now Meerkat has been released there will be a return to Lynx updates, although I don't know how frequently, so it shouldn't be too long until the cups update arrives. In the meantime you can set the Printer/Properties/Device in any application you use to print to grayscale and in the Printer/Options remember to check on the Print Black box. You have to check the Print Black box for each job, because the printer settings don't hold. Once you have hplip 3.10.6 you can check the printer driver directly and pick one of the two cartridge options. You can pick the grayscale option in your current HP printer driver, too, but it does stop you from using color with some printers. Hope that helps. Rather than juggle packages, I installed Meerkat, partly from laziness, partly because I love being a beta tester, and now I'm waiting for the Meerkat team to give me back some control. I deliberately killed Unity the other night and spent an hour running xwindows in recovery just to see what I could do with Meerkat in basic GNOME. I ran a print job out of Open Office using an HP 3500 with an empty color cartridge I want to replace next weekend. Everything looks fine. Bill Trimmer --- On Thu, 10/14/10, David Rahrer