I am ssh'd into his machine, and can only access cli, he can see what I do via tmux.

My friend is on Fedora 44, and has a HP103a printer which gets detected with lpstat:

~> lpstat -d
system default destination: HP-Laser-103-107-108

BUT, when I try to print with lp, he says the printer makes a little noise but nothing prints out.

I tried hp-setup but:

~> hp-setup -i -b usb
/usr/share/hplip/prnt/cups.py:705: SyntaxWarning: 'return' in a 'finally' block
  return fax_ppd,expected_fax_ppd_name, nick

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.25.8)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

(Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.)

^[[error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality.

I understand how painful printers can be, does anyone have experience with this? I haven't used a printer with Linux before but I can provide logs.