Upgrading to upstream-version 2.7.6 will fix this. Quote from the hplip
release-notes:
- No more Start-up daemons
- Replaced hpiod with the new HP Multi-Point Transport Driver (hpmud). Hpmud is
a shared library instead of a daemon.
This is even better, as even for HP users, there is no more
and btw, also cups should run only when a printer is detected, or
installed :-)
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Shouldn't run daemons when the relevant hardware is not present
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/20309
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The default installation of Ubuntu is done in a way to make the most
common hardware (for which there are drivers available upstream) work
out of the box. By having the CUPS and HPLIP daemons installed and
running it is easy to set up printers, especially the ones of HP.
Closing this as (at least
