I am trying to prevent annoying messages like "low on ink", which prevent printing on HP printers.

A widely suggested way is to remove printers and install them through "hp-setup"

However, the printer you remove is automatically reinstalled. Is cups or avahi now devoted to printer discovery? Which one should be stopped, and in which order with respect to remove printers and reinstall them?

Any simple recipe for that? I am only interested in using the black cartridge, and rarely even that
Otherwise, is there another brand that makes things simpler than HP? Canon? (to stay in low prices)

Thanks

I'm running Fedora 35 and Fedora 36 with an HP 3522. I believe I set it up through CUPS; no hp-setup or hplip rpms. Although I get the low ink messages, no problem printing black-only.

That does not help

Its both cups and avahi but stopping cups-browsed should stop the printer from automatically being added.
sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed
sudo systemctl disable cups-browsed

However, I don't know if that fixes the low ink print problem. If you never print in color switch to a laser printer.

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Thanks. Many posts say that uninstalling the printer and installing it again with hp-setup will freed from the low ink message, which, in my case prevents printing. I'll try, again, it is not that easy.
Printing software seems to have been done by cartridge makers and I am trying to get my freedom. Actually, today the less we print the better is for the environment. But, at least in my country, there are instances when one needs a print for administrative offices. Otherwise, in science, we never print. Visualization software does that better.