using network printers, what non-cups things exist?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:26:52PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 11 Nov 2019 at 10:24:28 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> 
> > I spent most of yesterday trying to get an HP OfficeJet to print from 16.04
> 
> Model?
It self-identifies as 5255 on the case which IIRC is what the LCD says too :)
I finally got it to work by changing the black cartridge, I have no
idea which things worked before except for that but many failed
filter messages and no paper feed :) 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I was also horrified to find that the hp-xxx utilities seem to
> > require a gui in many cases. 
> 
> I doubt that is the case.

Here is one example that gui message comes up all the time but
usually the stuff executes anyway so it may be more spurious
than accurate, 

 hp-print

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.19.8)
Print Utility ver. 4.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: GUI Modules PyQt4 and PyQt5 are not installed
error: hp-print requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Exiting.

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