Package: hplip-data Version: 3.15.11+repack0-1 Followup-For: Bug #779020 I had similar issue. When I copied the missing file from the hplip*zip source into /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat my printer had started to work.
-- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages hplip-data depends on: pn python3:any <none> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 hplip-data recommends no packages. Versions of packages hplip-data suggests: ii hplip 3.15.11+repack0-1+b1 -- no debconf information