HPLIP CUPS is driving me crazy print logo and nothing else.

I have an online store and frequently, when I print an invoice just my logo prints and nothing else. I have printed the document to file and tried to print the resultant PDF file and the same thing happens.

I have tried two HP printers with the same results. One is an HP Officejet 4500 Desktop and the other is an HP Deskjet F4280.

When I run hp-check I get all sorts of errors.

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS image - CUPS image development files…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libjpeg - JPEG library…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libpthread - POSIX threads library…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libtool - Library building support services…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: libusb - USB library…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)…
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.

Checking for dependency: PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python devel - Python development files…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python…
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files…
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/COMPILE TIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.

Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program…
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE…
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.

I assume that the errors explain what the problem is, but I am lost as to how to install the whole kit and kaboodle. Is there a package somewhere that I need to install?

BTW, sometimes, but rarely, it prints everything OK. And I know someone is going to ask, so here is the answer - Yes the PDF files look fine. The entire document is there.

Are you using 12.1 with the hpcups and ghostscript from the update repo?

If so, then these are fairly buggy.
I’d recommend adding the printing repo and updating hpcups and ghostscript from there.

Index of /repositories/Printing

Thanks you so much.

Sorry I should have mentioned my version and what I was using. You were right, and your solution has worked wonderfully.