My HP Officejet Pro 7740 had been working well with Fedora since Fedora 29 and continued to after an upgrade to Fedora 30. However, sometime in the recent past (no more than a couple of weeks probably a lot less) printing stopped working. Printing a PDF to the printer resulted in the raw PDF being printed rather than the pages. I tried to delete the printer and re-add it with the hp-toolbox from hplip, but while the delete worked, re-adding the printer caused “internal error” messages (even from the cups webpage) that after poking at a while seem to be ppd related. But I can’t be positive about that. What I am certain of, is that a “dnf downgrade cups” which reverted cups to 2.2.11 from 2.2.12 seems to have resolved the issues. The dnf downgrade reverted a handful of packages, so I can’t be sure where the issue really is.
Running scriptlet: cups-libs-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Downgrading : cups-libs-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Downgrading : cups-client-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Running scriptlet: cups-client-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Downgrading : cups-ipptool-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Downgrading : cups-filesystem-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.noarch
Downgrading : cups-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Running scriptlet: cups-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Running scriptlet: cups-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Cleanup : cups-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Running scriptlet: cups-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Running scriptlet: cups-client-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Cleanup : cups-client-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Cleanup : cups-ipptool-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Cleanup : cups-filesystem-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.noarch
Cleanup : cups-libs-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Running scriptlet: cups-libs-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-client-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-client-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-filesystem-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.noarch
Verifying : cups-filesystem-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.noarch
Verifying : cups-ipptool-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-ipptool-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-libs-1:2.2.11-1.fc30.x86_64
Verifying : cups-libs-1:2.2.12-1.fc30.x86_64
Thanks.