I found re-booting to be essential. When I tried it without re-boot, the test page printed about 30% then hung. Following a re-boot, all was fine.
Summary: If you are using an HP printer without a native Gutenprint driver, first download hpijs-2.8.2_static-1 from the package manager, go to /usr/lib/cups/filter and open foomatic-rip-hplip in Geany. Add
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#!/usr/bin/perl -U