I hate to jump on your thread, but please let me know if you get this solved. Also, I'm responding both to you and the list because lately none of my posts seem to make it to the list. I have a HP 712c, and I haven't been able to get it to work in SuSE since 7.3. However, my situation is that my printer is shared through a router, which may complicate things.
I got the HP710c work correctly under 8.0, which don't use CUPS, so may someone help me out on how to switch out from CUPS? I have a USR router with print server (ADSL), my experience is 'windoz' printer don't work with it, I got a HP5P connected, but only can print from windoz pc with some special driver :( I never able to get HP710c to setup through the print server. :( If anyone know how to use this print server (eg: which port, how to config, etc) please guide me. Thank you. Dennis