Printer setup not working

["Zach Uram" <netrek@gmail.com>]

I hope it is ok to post this in here, the packages are the same in Debian.

Here is what I've done to get my HP Deskjet 960c color inkjet printer
working in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake):

Booted up, hooked my printer up to the parallel port and powered it
on, added paper, printer's green light is on.

I then went to System -> Administration -> Printing
Clicked on New Printer and it ran gnome-cups-add and read the printer database

Then the Add a Printer dialog box says:
Step 1 of 3: Printer Connection
Printer Type: local printer
Use a detected printer: HP DESKJET_960C

It has in Printer Port: (greyed out so I can't change it):
hp:/par/DESKJET_960C?device=/dev/parport0 (HP DESKJET_960C)

So it detected my correct printer.

Then I went Forward to:
Step 2 of 3: Printer Driver
Manufacturer: HP
Model: Deskjet 960C
Driver: hpijs (recommended) - HPLIP 0.9.7 (Suggested) There is a green
dot after this showing it is installed.

Then I went Forward to:
Step 3 of 3: Printer Information
Name: Deskjet
Description: HP-DESKJET
Location: home

So after I filled those in I clicked Apply.

But when I go back to the Printers control panel I don't see any
printer in there. It just says has the New Printer icon to create a
new printer. It should have created the printer I setup. And when I
try to print it said in the console: lpr: Error - no default
destination available. So apparently it is not setting it up :-(

I checked the log files and only thing I saw possibly relevant was in
/var/log/syslog:

Dec 31 01:18:29 ubuntu kernel: [4498844.439000] lp0: ECP mode
Dec 31 01:18:30 ubuntu kernel: [4498844.757000] lp0: ECP mode
Dec 31 01:18:33 ubuntu kernel: [4498847.541000] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Dec 31 01:18:33 ubuntu kernel: [4498847.570000] ppdev0: negotiated
back to compatibility mode because user-space forgot
Dec 31 01:18:33 ubuntu kernel: [4498847.570000] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Dec 31 01:18:36 ubuntu kernel: [4498851.283000] lp0: ECP mode

I verified I have the correct drivers installed:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep hplip
ii  hplip                                  0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
ii  hplip-data                             0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - data files
ii  hplip-ppds                             0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP Linux
Printing and Imaging - PPD files
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l|grep hpijs
ii  foomatic-db-hpijs                      1.5-20060318-1
linuxprinting.org printer support - database
ii  hpijs                                  2.1.7+0.9.7-4ubuntu1 HP
Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive

Is there a way I can manually force it to try and print using the
drivers? It should work, I followed all the steps yet it never creates
an entry for my printer :-( What is wrong?

Zach