Canon BJC-55 no color

I have a Canon BJC-55 printer that is currently connected to my MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.1, I can print anything in black with the gutenprint driver supplied with the installation of Leopard. However, I am unable to get it to print any colors. Does anyone have a fix for this?

It turns out that the problem was a bad ink cartridge.

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