I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 (although I don't think the distro matters here) and I'd like to add HP Color Laserjet Pro m277dw by a name instead of IP. How to do that?

My router shows two different MAC addresses to the printer with the name "NPIB88B68" associated to both of them.

Does anyone know what are the two devices (MAC addresses)?
One seems to be silent and the other seems to have 7 services.
(Tried to probe them with nmap.)

Does anyone know what kind of URI to use?
The manual doesn't tell.

You should be able to do that, provided the hostname is resolvable. My home router acts as a name server, and so this allows me to reach (DHCP-addressed) hosts by hostname without any additional effort. Similarly, if using Avahi, local hostname resolution using a "hostname.local" naming scheme may also be possible.

That may well be the default hostname associated with your HP printer. If the printer has a built-in web-based config server, you should be able to access it via a browser and change the details as you like.

That depends on the printer. If you're using the HPLIP driver though, then the hp backend must be used. The printer URI will look something like
Edit: You'll have to try 'hp-setup' to see whether it is possible to configure via hostname though. I do recall some user saying HPLIP might not be able to resolve by hostname.

FWIW, my Brother network printer can be reached by DNS hostname or Avahi hostname....both these URIs work

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It looks like HPLIP doesn't give any options without defining the IP.

And the two MAC addresses bother me...
From the ADSL/router DHCP-table (before I made one of the IPs static):
It looks like when the printer is in sleep, only the first entry is present.
nmap didn't find any services there, but 7 services in the second "device".
(The date and time of the second "device" is updated soon after the printer is waken.)

If you use HPLIP to install the computer, HPLIP will find the printer by ip address, but show the printer by name once it is installed.

My goal is to put the printer back behind DHCP, and access it by name.
So if something happens to the router, I don't have to reinstall the printer to all my machines.
I have 6 machines, and a couple of weeks ago thunder broke my ADSL/router.
And my new router has different IP range.

This blog may be of interest to you:
http://blog.thefinalzone.net/2015/06...sue-on-hp.html
It describes an HPLIP URI using hostname using 'hp:/net/name_of_hp_printer?zc=hostname'

Some users claim only 'hp:/net/name_of_hp_printer?ip=ipaddress' works. I don't own HP hardware so can't test this. YMMV.

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I think this is exactly the answer to my question "Does anyone know what kind of URI to use?".
I think if I can't get that to work, then it's not possible with my printer. There are other ways but hplip, but probably the URI form is the key in all of them. THANKS!

it used to be (roughly):

$ echo "lp54: printername@foobar.org" >> /etc/printcap

that's it!

and printers could be logged into with telnet, remote secure, and do vector or bit graphics (postscript), and it was built into the print: and it was the format that high speed publishers accepted

until (they) "improved it" with cheap imports and software to try making it work !