Another printing problem

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Alright, this is extremely agonizing. I had this printer working with an earlier version of (cups, hpijs?), I switched to another model for a while, now I switched back and it doesn't work. HP2210 all-in-one.
The behavior is extremely strange. _without_ foomatic installed, I run thru the standard cups installation, it shows up, etc. But it won't print anything. It just queues forever and says idle, accepting jobs. If i install foomatic, the printer disappears (on the part where it asks me to pick the port/location). This is driving me to my wits end, what do I need to do?

iBertus wrote:Do you have ghostscript and gimp-print installed? Also, my printer 1210 all-in-one doesn't show up in the list of ports but works once configured for the first USB port in cups.
ghostscript and gimp-print are both up to date.
now I got foomatic installed, the printer still shows up, but it won't print :?:

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