I solved this by installing a minimal Xfce desktop environment. The printer wizard for Xfce just works.
Then after installing the printer, I removed all the packages I installed with
sudo pacman -Rsn xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-terminal network-manager-applet xfce4-notifyd xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin tumbler engrampa
Very sloppy solution, but it worked.