On Tue 26 Mar 2019 at 08:03:26 +0100, Mari Donkers wrote: [...]
> * Reproducing > > If hplip 3.18.12 works fine at your system I don't know how to reproduce > the problem. I do have sudo installed and my account added to the sudo > group to enable. But when hplip asks for a password it has 'root' > already filled in for the username (grayed out so it cannot be changed) > so I typed my root password in the dialog window. When you installed Debian did you choose not to create a root account and instead went for sudo rights? I think 'sudo hp-plugin -i' should install the plugin, as should the method in the link given. Both can be tested on your present system without damaging it. Regards, Brian.