HP Photosmart B8550, Premium Plus Photo paper - Ink refuses to dry.

Hello, hopefully someone can suggest a work-around for my rather frustrating problem.
I create and sell prints of my vector artwork. I have no complaints about the printer's capability to produce vibrant, crisp images.
However, when I used to use the printer to print off art scans of watercolor paintings/ ink drawings/ etc, I never had the problem of the ink not drying rather fast. 
My vector artwork is bold and usually flat areas of color. For example, the majority of the recent page I printed was a solid, bright, sky blue. 
The print -looked- awesome, better than I had hoped.
It sat in the output tray for a day, day and a half. I picked it up to slide it into a protective sleeve.
Noticed my thumb actually -took ink off- the paper, leaving an orange-ish pink, deep, and crystal clear thumb print. I knew the print was totally ruined at that point, so I wanted to see if maybe it was something on my hands. Washed and dried them, went back to handle the print. The black inks wouldn't budge, only the colors, and they were almost "tacky" to the touch, even after a couple days.
To me, that's really weird, especially when using the Premium Plus paper, and these being dye based 564 ink cartridges. I would think there's be nothing "sticky" to leave behind when the paper absorbed the dye. It's almost like the inks went down a lot thicker than normal. 
I have made no changes to "print quality" settings, as I never found a different between "best" and "normal" I keep them set to normal, and the ink coverage also at normal. 
Prints looks great, but I need them to be long lasting and dry, certainly more handleable than 3 days and sticky/tacky.
Any ideas? 
Thanks.

I have the B8550 too, and I just assumed that since it's a fairly high-end printer, it would support the highest-end HP photo paper (i.e., Premium Plus).  However, the manual states:
HP Premium and HP Premium Plus photo papers are not supported with this product.
Now, I don't know if that means you shouldn't use it, or that the advanced features won't work, or ??? Or if you should use it, what settings to use (since that type of paper is not listed in the options on the drop-down menu.)  I have used the Premium Plus Soft Gloss without any problems.  But HP seems to think that the highest quality paper you can use with this printer is "Advanced," which is their third-grade paper.  Not exactly what I'd expect from this type of printer. 

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