etotheipi,
Thanks, but no joy. I just double checked, and it's not there. This makes sense since my error message is "Unable to locate models.dat file". On the HPLIP site it lists a models.dat file name of "deskjet_1000_j110_series", but I'm unclear where to find the file online and where to put it on my offline computer.
I'm running 32bit ubuntu 10.04 on an Aspire One. Ubuntu gives me one option of using a ppd file.