Macbook won't print in color printer is fine and other mac prints color

Hi.
My HP color printer test pages fine and prints fine with an old imac I have, but my macbook pro sents photos, pages docs, pdfs, etc and they all come out black and white. I can't find any printer setting that is messed up and the docs are in color on my computer, I've looked in the HP utility as well as system preferences print&fax -- in pages, preview, iphoto, they all look fine, but prints B&W. I normally use wireless networking but have pluged the pirnter diredctly into my machine and the same problem exits. It's solated to my macbook pro. I have a b&w laser printer on the network that is fine.
oh, and yeah--this used to print in color and worked fine for about a year, now it doesn't.
HP 8500 a910
os 10.6.8 on a macbook pro 2.4 w/ 4ram
pages 09
help

From reading your post it sounds like a driver issue. Can you confirm the driver you are using. This can be determined by opening Print & Fax, selecting the HP in the printers list and then opening Options & Supplies. Under the Driver tab you will see what driver you are using.
Now for your information, if you were using the Generic PCL Laser printer, this will only print in b&w. So you would need to change this to the HP8500, or if your printer supports Postscript, you could select the Generic Postscript driver and see if this also prints in b&w.

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