Why does my hp 2545 only print black and white?

my hp 2545 printer only prints in black and white. i have an hp 2545 printer and I've tried countless times to print in colour.
i tried scanning and printing a coloured page, and it printed the exact coloured picture. when i tried again to print a coloured picture from my mac, it rendered a black and white/ grayscale picture. i have also tried printing from other applications s/a word, photoshop etc, it still gave me the same black and white result.
my sister tried to print the same picture on the same printer using her MacAir, and it printed a perfect coloured picture. is there a problem with my mac?
can anyone help me with this please?

I'll try. kicheekins, when you print, you should see a dialog box that has various choices, Printer, Presets, Copies and a clickable window in the middle. if you click and hold the mouse button down, you should see some options, Layout, Paper Handling, printer features and Graphics. Click on Graphics. there you should be able to choose quality and black-white/colour. Other than that,. maybe your printer needs a hard reset. or try resetting the printing system. go into preferences, then print and fax, and press the ctrl key while clicking on your printer, and choose reset printing system. as for hard resetting the printer, I forgot how to do that. go to www.hp.com and choose your printer, then go to the "Support" section and it'll tell you how to do a hard reset....
What OS are you running ? Tiger? I know it's not Yosemite or Mavericks?
Also--N.B-this forum is for Mac Pro's (the desktop computer, not portable). You have a Macbook Pro which is portable. Although they both have the words Mac and Pro in them, they are NOT the same machine. In future, please choose where you post your question
thanks
John b

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