Same issue here with official 18.04 LTS release. I have installed HPLIP 3.18.4, but I get the error message, No System Tray Detected on this system: Unable to start, exiting. What's worse is that the HP Officejet printer will not print anything. It just keeps sending all print jobs to "pause".
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