HP 8500 Officejet Pro A909g help won't print

I've installed everything and the printer will scan but it won't print anything. I've updated the material. The printer went to sleep and now it won't print. When I try to print it beeps shows up in the print window and then the document disappears and it has not printed then it next to the printer icon it says printer ready. Is there anyway to keep this printer from needing to be reinstalled after it goes to sleep with my Imac? Are there any other printers you would recommend? I've use HP printers for over 10 years and quality has been great until now.
Thanks,
Renee

I installed from the CD then I took that off and installed from HP website thinking perhaps there was an update that was not on the disk that came with the unit. I was connected with the USB cable. I don't need wireless so I never set up the wireless setting for the unit. Still did not work. I ended up taking the printer back and got the HP6500 same thing was happening. I called HP and they had me reset something. There is a print driver that is not communicating between the two. Once I did the reset it did work. My old printer was so much easier I plugged in the USB cable and it worked right away. Things are getting too technical. All I want is a good printer, copier and scanner. I don't need or want the fax but that seems to be part of the units anymore.
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