Help adding wireless printer in Solaris 9

I have a home network with a wireless PC and wireless Mac, and an Ethernet connected Ultra running SPARC OS 9. Bought a new HP Photosmart C7280 printer, which supports wireless connection. Easy enough to connect the PC and Mac. How about the Ultra?
Poking around, found this cmd:
# lpadmin -p hp -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=+ipaddr+:9100 -o protocol=tcp
Subsituting my printer's ipaddr and running the cmd as root gave this error:
lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible
From the Ultra, I can ping the printer and telnet to it (and get it to accept input which prints). Any help appreciated.
- Joe

Solution is to use CUPS:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/install_cups.html
Works great.
- Joe

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