HP Deskjet D1455 printing wrong colors

So, I've had this printer for about a year, and have used it off and on with just a black ink cartridge.  No problems.
I recently bought a color cartridge and have been doing some printing.  Here's where the problem comes in....
Printing emails/word processing (these are what I've tested so far), any words that are in color aren't coming up the right color...Blue is printing as Magenta...green is printing as blue (these are the two that I've noticed so far).
Notes:
BRAND NEW ink cartridge
Test page from printer is FINE
This isn't a problem if I print a .jpg (clip art dowloaded from the net is printing in the proper colors...blue is blue, green is green)....it's just the words that i'm typing and changing the color of that aren't working.
Thoughts?
I know just enough to be dangerous

Hi,
There are some troubleshooting steps listed in the document I've provided a link for.  Let me know if this helps.
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