Since i ask for help so often ;)
a small contribution.
To be able to print from Office with cups i had to install libt1-5
which i had to convert from a deb file.
Solved my printing issue (job suspended which would never print for office files)
Should probably be added to the package list...
also, hp-check (from hplip) generates 20 warnings/errors. The same applies to 3.0 and 4.0RC.
and it creates an icon in the menu that will never start the program: (i think it is a link to hp-tool or toolbox); that should be in hp-util which is not in the repos.