gnome-cups-icon in panel notification area

[utanja]

well for several months i have ben trying to resolve a problem...

on 3 of the boxes on my debian network the gnome-cups-icon appears when 
printing and vanish when done.....this is normal.....but on the other 4 
boxes....printing occurs normally but no gnome-cups-icon.....all i 
believe have been installed the same way...ok.l.here are more 
details...now that you have background info...

from the cosole if i for example:
$lpr /opt/sources.list

i print fine and when i switch to gnome while printing the icen is 
present...but never disappear when printing completes...
if printing completes prior to gnome...no icon...that is ok....since not 
printing...

ok...now when in gnome....printing is fine but no icon...
here are the cups modules i have loaded..

bjfiltercups,(cups addon for Canon i560 bubble jet
cupsys
cupsys-bsd
cupsys-client
cupsys-driver-gimpprint
cupsys-driver-gimmprint-data
cupsys-pt
foomatic-db
foomatic-do-engine
foomatic-filters
foomatic-filters-ppds
foomatic-gui
gnome-cups-manager
gs-common
gs-esp
ijsgimpprint
python-foomatic

and all the libs for gnome cups gimpprint etc...

all printers on the system work fine....any ideas...anyone...?