C6180 only prints in fast draft

My Photosmart c6180 (on a Dell Precision M4400 laptop, 2.53ghz, 18 months old, Windows XP sp3/quad core/4.0 GB memory/68% HD available/ZoneAlarm firewall and antivirus, I run virus/spyware scans frequently using ZA and Advanced System Optimizer/disk defragmented 24/7 using Diskeeper) will only print full document content in "fast draft" mode, and fast draft is about one fourth the speed it used to be. In other print modes (automatic, fast normal, normal, best) it will, for example, print the outlines of forms (when printing from a .pdf document or from QickBooks) but no text within the form. In automatic, normal, fast normal, best, It will not print text at all from Word or WordPerfect, onlyl prints text when in fast draft mode. It will not print text copied and pasted to Notepad, again, except in fast draft mode and even that is also very slow.
The HP diagnostics "Test Page" colors print fine (I have consumed half a cartridge of each color printing test pages), but there is no text (not sure if that page even has text). The HP "Diagnostic Page" prints the header text and the big color boxes fine, and the outline of the form, again consuming lots of ink, but the text within the document is a very light blue, so light it is unreadable though it is there. On one of the test pages it prints the Windows logo in the upper left, but nothing else.
When trying to print text documents the printer sounds like and acts like it is printing. The printer head moves over the page and the paper moves, slowly, through the printer but the paper has no print when it comes out. The printer has also become extremely slow when attempting to print in anything other than fast draft and that is even much slower than it once was.
I have already done the following:
     1) changed the USB cable, and then changed the USB port. Nothing changed.
     2) uninstalled all HP software and drivers and reinstalled all new. Took four attemptes and 18 hours, but once finally   up and running......no change.
     3) I have gone through the Windows printer troubleshooting Q&A, no help.
Would very much appreciate your help, I have exhausted the limits of my trouble shooting skills.

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