A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: hplip-0.9.7-4.2. Here the announcement:

Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-635
2006-01-11
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : hplip
Version : 0.9.7
Release : 4.2
Summary : HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
Description :
The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides
drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.

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Update Information:

The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging Project.
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* Fri Dec 23 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.7-4.2
- Fixed system-config-printer conflict.
* Fri Dec 23 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.7-4.1
- Build for FC4.
* Wed Dec 21 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.7-4
- Build requires python-devel, libjpeg-devel (bug #176317).
* Fri Dec 9 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Wed Dec 7 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.7-3
- Use upstream patch 0.9.7-2.
- No longer need lpgetstatus or compile patches.
* Fri Nov 25 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.7-2
- Prevent LPGETSTATUS overrunning format buffer.
* Thu Nov 24 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.7-1
- 0.9.7.
* Fri Nov 18 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.6-7
- Fix compilation.
* Wed Nov 9 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> 0.9.6-6
- rebuilt against new openssl
* Mon Nov 7 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.6-5
- Rebuilt.
* Wed Oct 26 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.6-4
- Ship initscript in %{_sysconfdir}/rc.d/init.d.
* Fri Oct 14 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
- Install the desktop file with Hidden=True (bug #170762).
* Fri Oct 14 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.6-3
- Don't install desktop file (bug #170762).
- Quieten the hpssd daemon at startup (bug #170762).
* Wed Oct 12 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.6-2
- 0.9.6.
* Tue Sep 20 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.5-3
- Apply upstream patch to fix scanning in LaserJets and parallel InkJets.
* Mon Sep 19 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.5-2
- 0.9.5.
- No longer need condrestart patch.
- Fix compile errors.
* Tue Jul 26 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.4-3
- Fix condrestart in the initscript.
* Mon Jul 25 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.4-2
- Use 'condrestart' not 'restart' in %post scriptlet.
* Fri Jul 22 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.4-1
- forward-decl patch not needed.
- 0.9.4.
* Fri Jul 1 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-8
- Removed Obsoletes: hpoj tags (bug #162222).
* Thu Jun 30 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-7
- Rebuild to get Python modules precompiled.
* Wed Jun 22 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-6
- For libsane-hpaio ExcludeArch: s390 s390x, because it requires
sane-backends.
* Wed Jun 15 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-5
- Use static IP ports (for SELinux policy).
* Tue Jun 14 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-4
- Conflicts: hpijs from before this package provided it.
- Conflicts: system-config-printer < 0.6.132 (i.e. before HPLIP support
was added)
* Thu Jun 9 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-3
- Added Obsoletes: for xojpanel and hpoj-devel (but we don't actually package
devel files yet).
* Thu Jun 9 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-2
- Add 'hpaio' to SANE config file, not 'hpoj' (bug #159954).
* Thu Jun 9 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-1
- Use /usr/share/applications for putting desktop files in (bug #159932).
- Requires PyQt (bug #159932).
* Tue Jun 7 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 0.9.3-0.1
- Initial package, based on Mandriva spec file.

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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

77a6db88477d5a68d4d73ab9d320e429d3a70966 SRPMS/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.src.rpm
e69286e58ae8f5307c3065a69aac9ed32e690fcb ppc/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.ppc.rpm
6edc8cfa185414c1e23bdc6d020c23cc326da63f ppc/hpijs-0.9.7-4.2.ppc.rpm
56a411450fe646a79817e161b314a98ac93ac422 ppc/libsane-hpaio-0.9.7-4.2.ppc.rpm
5e259fa79fd73d8fe6b5ec58c7d54572c0d54d92
ppc/debug/hplip-debuginfo-0.9.7-4.2.ppc.rpm
8dc0e0409f794c601925670f36c5f99368c91459 x86_64/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.x86_64.rpm
3031d5f81277bec82842b7a7de5e5b7357f27d84 x86_64/hpijs-0.9.7-4.2.x86_64.rpm
b5fc00ee734f6a3639e9ff40c7084d1a61f324ac x86_64/libsane-hpaio-0.9.7-4.2.x86_64.rpm
da7066f7f7d693ac760c8579317ff9e9a2712d66
x86_64/debug/hplip-debuginfo-0.9.7-4.2.x86_64.rpm
13fc8cbfeb64772d52e167dabd853353620c8ec5 i386/hplip-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm
95404d3f3c045f8b4fafde67cfcc665bcca915ed i386/hpijs-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm
91f496579f792337a00f21df23a35f3c618d48e6 i386/libsane-hpaio-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm
85508c37b763362f9fbb1d064c4d5eea08923905
i386/debug/hplip-debuginfo-0.9.7-4.2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.