HP printing Issues in Lion

Hello!
I have recently upgraded our Macs to Lion. We have a wireless netowkr running on a Time Capsule. Two Macs both on Lion and a Windows machine ethernet connected ot the TC. We have an HP Photosmart 7760 printer connected to the TC so all machines can access it.
This setup work perfectly before Lion.
Now, the printer is printing most everything badly - meaning that it prints as if it's running out of ink. However, that has been checked as is not the case. Also, some things print perfectly such as some webpages, some PDFs, some illustrator files. But seems up predictable and not rhym or reason to what it will and won't print correctly.
This is happening from all machines as well as from AirPrint devices.
I have just downloaded and installed the "Universal HP driver" from apple suppoert x2.8 OSX and still having this issue.
Although the printer is old, I don't think it is teh problem since some stuff prints perfectly.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
rich!

No - I looked on thier website and could find the answer. I thought this would be a better place to get help
-rich

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