Gosh, thank you for your testing. What you have observed is not a regression between 1.7.1 and 1.7.3. In general HPLIP does not recognize printers which are connected to non-HP print server boxes. To make use of HPLIP with a network printer you need to use a built-in network connector in the printer or an original HP JetDirect print server box. So the behavior of HPLIP is as expected.
If you have printed with this configuration (and used the lpd://192.168.2.253/lp1 which the CUPS web interface perhaps also proposed to you) yoiu have at least tested the printer driver (HPIJS) which comes with HPLIP 1.7.3. To do the testing of the HP Toolbox, HP Setup, scanning, and other HP tools, connect your printer to the USB or the parallel port of your computer (only for this test) and do the testing again. -- Feisty UVF ER: New HPLIP 1.7.3 release fixes lots of bugs https://launchpad.net/bugs/98520 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
