HP 5180 printer wont print to photo tray - tiger software

For some reason the printer will not recognize that I am trying to print a photo (even when photo paper is selected in print menu in iphoto)
i uninstalled the software that came with the printer and reinstalled the software upgrade for tiger from the HP website but still no joy.
What could I be missing ? Is there a way of determining if I uninstalled all of the old software- could that be the issue ? , is there some other manual fix out there ?

This does actually get a little easier with iPhoto '08 and Leopard (but even there it's by no means easy). What you need to do in Tiger with iPhoto 6 is click the advanced button, then select the Paper Type/Quality item from the pop-up menu in the print dialog, then from Paper Source select Photo Tray. (Sorry, I don't have this setup anymore, so the wording may not be exact.)
Just trying to help.
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