Officejet J6410 not working

I'm trying to get an HP OfficeJet J6410 working from a fresh install of ubuntu and also under Solaris. Both fail. On ubuntu attempting to print the test page results in a message:

Processes: no %%:Pages comment in header

Which I assume means the filter has failed.

On Solaris I've managed to dig a bit deeper and the problem appears to be that hpijs server is not playing nicely with ghostscript:

: pearson FSS 51 $; truss -faeo /tmp/tr.$$ /usr/lib/lp/bin/foomatic-gswrapper>
truss -faeo /tmp/tr.$$ /usr/lib/lp/bin/foomatic-gswrapper -D -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- /tmp/passwd.ps
foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-D' '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs' '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' 3>&1 1>&2
unable to set Quality=0, ColorMode=2, MediaType=0, err=4
following will be used Quality=0, ColorMode=2, MediaType=0
unable to set paper size=17, err=4
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in setscreen
Operand stack:
    -0.0 0 --nostringval--
: pearson FSS 52 $;

From the source it appears the two "unable to set" error happen if routines are called when there is no valid printer context at that point, whether this is the ultimate cause of the rangecheck error I don't yet know.

If I remove the -sDEVICE=ijs entry from the above command ghostscript manages to render the PostScript file to the screen.

Even if no PostScript file is presented to the command at all the same errors are seen.

Any help diagnosing the issue would be welcomed

--chris