Thanks Brian for your quick response. Yeah, it's cool that I can use the printer for driverless printing, but unfortunately, the scanning functionality still requires the plugin.
It is also true that the issue seems to be in code downloaded on-the-fly from upstream, so you're right in closing the bug.
It's a real shame that HP still require proprietary code, and have such shit Linux support.
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