My Macbook Air isn't recognizing my HP Deskjet F4480?

So I had this problem before. When I was trying to connect my printer to the computer for the first time using a USB cable, it wasn't even recognizing that the cable was connected. I took it to a One to One personal training session for help and the first thing the printer did when I turned the computer on was recognize my printer. I've moved into a dorm room since so the printer was disconnected to my mac for a little while but when I went to print off an assignment, this started up again.
I tried restarting my computer. I've checked all the connections. I've even plugged other USB devices in and my mac can read them all just fine, but whenever I plug in my printer it won't even recognize and if I try to print it says that the deskjet is disconnected. Anybody know how to fix this?

Hi jtreadway95,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3147
Cheers,
Judy

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