HP 5550 problems printing in color.

I bought a new iMac this past summer and have recently installed Lion. I also just bought, after a long delay, a new color cartridge for my HP 5550 DeskJet printer. The printer works fine, with one exception... it does not want to print in color. I know that it is a dinosaur of a printer, and it's no longer supported. It prints great in Black and White. Is there some setting that I am not seeing that will allow me to print in color again, or am I out of luck and stuck in black and white until I buy a new printer? Thanks!

Hello ! Thank you for posting on the HP Forums! I would be more then happy to help regarding your HP Officejet 6600 not printing color and getting stuck in pause mode. The first thing I recommend is to ensure the printers hardware is working correctly. I recommend doing a Print Quality Report to see if the printer prints in color without pausing.
To print the Print Quality Report press the setup icon on the printers touch screen display (looks like a wrench and gear). Once you are in the Setup Menu press Reports and then press Print Quality Report. The report should start printing. If the report prints almost right away with color then the printer is working correctly and you are likely looking at a software issue in the Mac. If it is a software issue then I suggest uninstalling the HP Software. After the software is uninstalled I recommend performing a "repair disk permissions" on your Mac. A repair disk permissions is a utility built in the Mac operating system designed to locate and resolve issues or errors. After the repair disk permission is complete restart your Mac computer and re-install the software.
To uninstall the HP Software click here: Uninstalling HP Software
To perform a repair disk permission click here: Performing a Repair Disk Permissions
To Download the HP software click here: Officejet 6600 Full Feature Software and Driver
Once the install is complete I recommend checking for software updates on the Mac. To check for software updates click the "apple" icon at the to left and click on "app store". In the app store you can click the "updates" icon at the top of the window. Install and Hp or printer updates. After any updates you should restart the computer. Please post back and let me know how things turn out!

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