hpcups broke my printing

I had a thoroughly impressive rant goin' on here but I just don't have the energy to type it all out. Suffice it to say that hplip-hpcups suffers from some fairly basic forgot-to-catch-the-errorcode problems, and it ate up an hour or more of my life. As a friend says, I'm entertaining when I have my indignation all worked up, but it's better in person.