Printer is Offline Message on a Mac 10.6.8

Hi,
This problem is driving me crazy, and wanted to print alot of documents. But anyway, I followed the troubleshooting issues posted on your support site and followed and nothing happened. I have tried resetting my printer, re-installed my HP software and adding a new printer and did all of the steps in order.
I installed the latest driver software for this printer:3.3.2
Mac OS X: 10.6.8
Macbook White
While I installed the software: it detected my wireless connection like Network Name, IP address, address mode, subjet mask, default gateway and host name.
Then I successfullly installed the HP software on my mac.
Then I added the HP Officejet on my Systems Preferences > Print and FAx > Then added my printer on the last.
After that I deleted the printed queues remaining on the printer window. And printed 1 document to see if it were printing.
Now, this experience is getting frustrated and ridiculous. I have tried all of the troubleshooting steps, but nothing worked. I need some guidance how to get this printer to work. For the past 3 weeks, I have printed over 500 pages of slides to prepare myself for a professional exam I am studying. But this process of getting the printer to work is really a pain of ***. I want somebody to help me about this.

Photoshop was the last version compiled for the PPC cpu, not Intel. 10.6.8 kept it going with the Rosetta emulator, gone since 10.7.
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