I cannot get my HP Photosmart to print.

So when I bought my mac the other day I got my free printer that comes along with it. It is a HP Photosmart. I am connected wirelessly and my computer and printer have found one another/connected. When I go and try to print a page is allows me to choose how many pages I want, etc. Well when I go and press on print, it doesn't do anything. I did all the printer setup steps as needed and connected it to my computer and everything, I just can't seem to get it to print. Does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong? I may just be blonde and this could be a really easy issue. lol
Thanks

Well I tried all that and nothing was working so then I finally called Apple and everything was working on my computer so then I had to call HP and something was wrong, which I couldn't tell you word for word but happened but my IP Addresses weren't matching at all for some reason. Thank you for the helpful information though.

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