The current default discovery method is SLP.

On Friday, June 16, 2017 4:27:01 PM EDT Till Kamppeter wrote:
> It seems that mDNS/Bonjour (aka DNS-SD) is more reliable than the method
> which HPLIP uses by default (SNMP? HP guys, am I correct?). DNS-SD is
> the more modern way to discover devices in the network and got standard
> for many device types, especially also printing. We have standardized
> driverless network printing concepts now (used by smartphones but
> currently also by desktops, including Ubuntu from 17.04 on) and they all
> use DNS-SD for printer discovery in networks. Also CUPS broadcasts
> shared printers via DNS-SD so that remote clients find them.
> 
> So I want to ask the HPLIP developers at HP to use DNS-SD by default to
> find HP network printers or better, both DNS-SD and SNMP in parallel.
> Can you do that in the next HPLIP release? Thanks in advance.

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  HPLIP cannot detect printers in your network

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