Hello,
I have finally managed to solve this today after 20 days of trying.
It needed these things doing to work -
1/ set up the cups driver (this doesn't print)
2/ set up HPLIP (this doesn't print either)
3/ add into HPLIP the CUPS driver.
4/ then remove the duplicated printer in printer settings
5/ then install an additional hp-plugin, the gui install method doesnt work (covers 75-80% of your entire
screen with messages), you have to install the plugin from the terminal.
6/ you also have to alter your software settings to allow updates from Canonical Partners to successfully
install that plugin.
7/ Optional - I right clicked the very ugly icon, and chose hide when not active, to make it go away, I
didn't choose hide always in case the entire thing fell apart etc.
No other configuration worked, the missing of any of the steps caused it to need returning back to #1 and starting again.
It now prints leafpad texts.
I will learn about getting it to print graphics on Linux at a later time as I am so tired out of this.
Hopefully it is of some use to any other users of this printer.
Update -
Today is final day of holiday so I have had time to finish this off.
I managed to get it to print graphics, charts/tables, and a happy cat pic, using OpenOffice and Gimp.
The aspect ratio was off, but it was okay for me.
Google says there are plugins for Gimp for printing photos, I have not tried these as mostly I just need text, or a rough copy of an image of a project or idea.
