Photosmart premium 320 not printing good photos wrong colors sharp but loss of detail never befo

i have a photosmart premium about 3 yrs old.   always got good results when printing photos but now photos are printing with extremely saturated colors, loss of some detail but main subject is very sharp as it should be.   i've used photoshop elements 8 as well as other editing programs.   i don't know why this is happening now.   i've got through all the steps that i can possibly do - that i know of but it's getting frustrating even though some of the effects are quite interesting (but i don't what them)    For example, a picture of a plant was great but the background came out aqua.  another plant was in front of a white fence and the fence is purple - it was white.   a picture of a waterfall was nice but the foliage wa a duller green and the rocks and water are purple (pretty but not right).    I don't know what i'm doing.    I've tried this in Photoshop Essentials 8 and other editing programs and it's always the same.    what can it do as i've never had this problem before. 

What model of printer do you have? I am not familiar with a Photosmart Premium 320. Is this a small photo printer that is white, or a full size printer?
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