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Dedoimedo posted a short distribution-agnostic tutorial explaining how to work around the problems and errors with the HP proprietary printing plugin hpcups for Linux



This is a very quick tutorial that should help you get your printing working again. Namely, you have a printer, made by HP, and it used to work well in previous releases of your favorite distribution, openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, it does not matter. Now, suddenly, it no longer works.

This guide will show you how to work around the problem at hand. It comes down to choosing the right drivers for your printer during the configuration of the device. I will demonstrate with Ubuntu Trusty, but please, believe me, it's the same thing with all other distributions. Honest. Now, after me.
  HP printers broken in Linux? Heres a fix