I am happy to announce that the HP LaserJet p1505 printer works out of the box on Ubuntu 9.10. 
No more hacking around that was required for Ubuntu 9.04. If you followed my other post to compile the drivers and you are going to upgrade to Karmic it would be best to uninstall the compiled version of foo2zjs. Hopefully you’ve kept the source directory around. If so all you need to do is “cd” into the directory and run
sudo make uninstall
Then you can upgrade and then reinstall the Ubuntu foo2zjs package
sudo apt-get install foo2zjs
When you plug the printer in system-config-printer may prompt you if you want to install a plugin for the printer. Accept and follow the instructions. Afterwards you will probably need to open hp-toolbox and click the “download firmware” button in the main window. Afterwards the printer should be working. That said, after I upgraded and plugged in the printer it “just worked” and I didn’t have to do any of that stuff. As much as I was disappointed that this printer didn’t work in Jaunty, I am equally happy that it is working perfectly in Karmic.
hawt
Thanks for the help! I now have my P1505 working in Karmic.
Matt
[...] LaserJet p1505 on Ubuntu 11 08 2009 Update: See here if you’re using Ubuntu 9.10 [...]
I had to build the foo2zjs-package as described in the ‘hacking around’ blog post on Kramic, the official way did not work for me. (Laserjet 1020)
just scored a p1505 on craigslist… and it isn’t working for me on 9.10 .. gets as far as the firmware bit and then fails with an error #1806
nevermind… from another blog I found out that I wasn’t suppose to use hplib (works now)… go figure. gah dam proprietary crap
thank you greatly for this simple advice.
worked like a charm.
hp laserjet p1505 is not working properly