Color Printing on High Gloss Paper

I'm using an HP Photosmart Premium  All in One (C309a). I am printing a camouflage pattern, with a lot of color on top of color, using high gloss transfer paper. The variations in color are getting lost on the high gloss although it prints out just fine on regular paper.
I'm using the Best quality option and have tried both the HP Premium Plus Photo Paper setting as well as Glossy Greeting Card. I've also tried printing with both the RLT photo fix setting on and off.  No luck.
I haven't played around with other, more advanced, settings because I'm not familiar with them and I'm tired of wasting paper ($$). Any suggestions?
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Okay. I'm not currently a blonde but apparently old habits die hard :0
In my frustration I failed to check the ink level of my photo black, which I rarely use. I'm fairly certain a new cartridge is going to solve my problem.
Sorry to have wasted anybody's time.

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