Printing color on Canon iRC4080i

I just joined a company where I need to print fliers in color from my mac. I have OSX 10.5.8. The printer is a Canon iRC4080i, and I was given the mac printer driver that goes with it. I print through the network - my computer sees the printer, and I can print easily in black and white. But I cannot get it to print color at all.
The office manager says I should have settings where I can choose black and white or color. All I see is "color matching", and then it takes me to "automatic".
The printer driver manual says the printer should be able to automatically tell if I want to print color or black and white, and do so accordingly. But it doesn't really matter what I do, it won't print in color.
Even though the printer driver came with the computer manual, and it says I should be able to print osx 10.4 or later, I'm wondering if the driver needs to be updated. When I click on the print and fax in the system preferences, it says I am using a generic postscript printer for the ir c4080_D printer, driver version 1.0.
Any suggestions on how to get it to print in color? It's getting imperative that I get this solved soon.
Thanks!
Brenda

bmitchellrem wrote:
The printer is not set to B&W since everyone in the company has to print in color.
As I mentioned above, with the correct Canon printer driver installed you will override the default colour setting in the copier. The Generic PS driver on OS X cannot override this default and will print as per this setting. This explains why others in the company are printing in colour and why you would not be.
I uninstalled the printer driver 3.2 version that came with the printer, and installed the PPS version that you suggested.
The v3.2 driver was one of the drivers I mentioned. There was no need to uninstall this driver as it would have worked. With the v3.2 driver being used the colour setting is located under the Quality menu > Color Mode.
The print dialog box did not change. I didn't have any different options for color printing than I had with the other driver version. And it still just printed in B&W, even though on my print preview it looks color and all options I could find pointed to that it should be printing color.
When using the PPD for the C4080, the colour setting is located in Printer Features > Color 1 > Color Mode. The default setting is Printers Default. So if the copier is set to b&w as a default then the document will print in b&W. So open this Color Mode menu and select Color. You will see the other option is Black and White.

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