C4650 Only Prints B&W - Mac OSX 10.9.5

I just connected my HP4650 to a new iMac running OSX 10.9.5. The black & color ink cartridges in the HP are new and work fine when printing from my Windows PC. However, the iMac will only print in B&W. HP does not seem to offer a specific driver for Mac and the iMac is using the default generic driver. It recognizes it as an HP Photosmart C4600 series and describes its "Kind" as "Generic PCL Laser Printer". In the Printers & Scanners menus, there are no options available to selecg color printing. It also doesn't recognize Ink Supply levels. Is there a solution to this?
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I solved the problem by deleting the printer and then re-installing it from the Printers & Scanners menu. All functions seem to be working now.

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