@Reuben
"HP" and "Hewlett Packard" were merged around april in Dapper to one 
manufacturer indicaton "HP", so there is only manufacturer indication "HP" in 
the released Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

You probably did some manual changes, make sure you have the following package 
versions installed:
* foomatic-filters-ppds  20060406-0ubuntu1
* hplip-ppds 0.9.7-4ubuntu1
* gnome-cups-manager 0.31-1.1ubuntu13

It is not a good idea to file 2 seperate bugs in one report, this makes it 
difficult for people to comment. You could open a seperate bug report for your 
foomatic-net suggestion.
My opinion on this matter is that gnome-cups-manager should make use of 
foomatic xml database and generate PPD files from it when needed. This allow 
greater flexibility: e.g. only PPD files for a specific locale could be 
generated. As a plus this decreases disk space usage compared to the current 
prebuilt PPDs. It is not a good idea to fetch every driver from the 
linuxprinting.org website since some people have no permanent connection to the 
internet, the linuxprinting.org website can be down. They would be unable to 
install their printer. Disk space is cheap these days, so less than 70 MB don't 
really matter. People concerned with disk space can still remove the prebuilt 
PPD packages and download the PPD from linuxprinting.org for their printer 
model.
I think it is better to create a specification from this instead of filling a 
bug report.

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Foomatic missing LaserJet 4L / suggestions
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50631

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