I have an HP5510 Wireless printer that I have been using for a year or two.

I have no problems connecting to it with both my current laptop running 12.04LTS and my wife's Windows 8 HP laptop. I recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 as a dual boot on my wife's HP with minimal hassle. However, I simply cannot get this bloody printer to work with 13.10!

I have tried simply adding the printer through the Printers section of Ubuntu. It is unable to find the printer when it scans. When I manually enter the IP address of the printer it then finds the printer and recognizes it as an HP5510-d series printer. I click ADD and it goes to the next screen where it starts to install, pauses for roughly three seconds, and then pops up a dialogue saying "Unable to install printer" with no further explanation.

I've done this maybe a dozen times with the same result. I downloaded and installed the current hplip, but that did not help at all. I even downloaded and installed the HpLip GUI tool. Using that tool I try to add a wireless printer but it insists that I first cable to the printer. Nope. I've had this printer for quite some time. I'm sure it came with a cable but... nope. And why would I need a USB cable to connect to a printer that is already online! Isn't that just for initializing the printer?!?!?

Anyway, I appear to be stuck. Any suggestions that don't involve purchasing a USB cable simply to connect to Ubuntu for 90 seconds in order to install a printer that it is able to connect with wirelessly when I give it the IP address? I've spent years telling my wife how much easier everything is in Ubuntu as opposed to Windows, and right now this is killing my credibility.