Photo paper tray ignored

I have a 7520e all in one printer and my operating system is windows vista. Recently I have encountered a problem in printing photos. All photos print on the paper from the main tray instead of the photo paper tray.
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Hi Fred of Texas,
Welcome to the HP Forum.
Your Printing Preferences may be stuck.
Paper Size and Media Type are selected in Printing Preferences:
Control Panel > icon view > Devices and Printers > Right-Click your Printer >
Printing Preferences > tab Paper / Quality >>
Select Paper Source > as desired / required by printer model
Select Paper Size > as desired / required for the print job
Select Media > as desired / required for the print job
OK
You might try opening the Photo image in Windows Photo Viewer -- the program comes with most flavors of Windows.
Once you open the photo in Windows Photo Viewer, select to print it and then pick your options.
Note that the "fit picture to frame" is NOT checked!
You can use the following example:
Reference:
Print to the 4X6 Photo Tray
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