Officejet Pro 8500 a909n with laptops

I have a client with 2 Dell Windows 7 laptops, connected wirelessly to an Officejet Pro 8500 a909n at home. Both laptops are carried between office and home locations. They also access the office remotely from home via a VPN to a Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server running Easy Print. The 2 laptops are identical, and the same version of the HP Printer Software is installed on both. But one of them keeps having a problem where the print queue on the laptop stops working. Documents are hung in it, and its Port IP address is different each time this happens.
Someone before me set it all up, but I am ready to do a total redo!!! What is the most reliable way to set this printer up? Will a static wireless IP address fix it? The printer itself has a fixed IP address, but that is always different from the wireless addresses showing up on the laptops.
It seems like the queue problem occurs after the laptop has been taken offsite and brought back home again. But the other one works fine after going offsite. The only difference between the laptops' offsite network is: the one with the problem has a USB-based docking station at work, and the one that works well has a Dell docking station that uses the laptop's native dock port on the bottom.
When I run the Windows 7 built-in Printer Troubleshooter, it does not find any problems besides documents stuck in the queue. When I delete all the documents out of the queue, it does not find any problems, but it still does not print. I have downloaded the HP Troubleshooter, but not used it yet.
Any advice would be appreciated.

I would suggest to try the static IP method first before doing an uninstall/reinstall. You might also want to try using the diagnostic utility I linked below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02037530&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
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Hello @JCooper615!
Thank you for posting on the HP Forums!
You had mentioned that the printer printed pink when you had black cartridge only selected. I am not too sure exactly what caused that to happen but I can provide some suggestions that may prevent it from happening again.
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