C4580. Will not stop printing.

I have a very big problem with my printer. It will not stop printing once I send a print job to it (regardless of the program in windows, or whether it is a test page etc). I have had this problem since new and have been unable to use the printer properly since I first bought it.
The problem is as follows - whenever I print, the printer just keeps churning out and printing the same page time after time after time. I have to manually cancel the job. I have reinstalled and reset the printer 3 or 4 times now with no effect. Even when I do the very initial print test on photo paper (and put one sheet in), it prints but then says it is out of paper (as I delibrately only put one sheet in the tray). This is driving me bonkers. I have spoken to HP support on this several times. I have wasted countless paper and half the ink cartridges - and this is just to TRY and setup the printer! Madness.
This is NOT a printer problem but something wrong with the driver/software. The reason being this:
- I do NOT have this problem if I print to the C4580 using the generic HP 6500 driver (this is what HP recommended when they were helping me). However, I do not want to use this driver as it defeats the object of having an all-in-one and being able to scan); and
-  If I do a test print from the printer (as opposed to on my computer), it only prints one page.
Also, this does not seem to be a corrupt print spooler as I have stopped and restarted this several times.
Advice please, otherwise I am sending this back to HP and claiming damages.
Thanks
Elliot

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