Stefano, thanks for the Mate forum link, I have tried to make up the sum
of the tips to help users get HPLIP working again.

So anyone here, please try to clean up any HPLIP mess on your system
using the following steps:

1. Remove HPLIP deb-packages

sudo dpkg -P --force-depends hplip hplip-data hplip-doc hplip-gui \
libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs 
printer-driver-postscript-hp \
hpijs-ppds libhpmud0

2. Remove upstream-installed HPLIP using HPLIP binary uninstaller

wget https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/hplip/hplip/3.20.3/hplip-3.20.3.run
sh hplip-3.20.3.run --noexec
cd hplip-3.20.3
sudo python3 ./uninstall.py
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/hplip/

3. Reinstall deb-packages with:

sudo apt install -f hplip-gui printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-
postscript-hp libsane-hpaio

Then try to create a print queue with hp-setup and, if needed load the
proprietary plugin with hp-plugin. Also printer setup with GNOME Control
Center or system-config-printer should work again.

DO NOT install printer-driver-hpijs and hpijs-ppds. These packages are
deprecated and not maintained any more, and they also have no benefit
compared to printer-driver-hpcups.

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