Printing problem from photoshop

Hi, I moved from a PC to an iMac in February this year - and up till now things have been going well.
Here is the problem:
I'm trying to print from Photoshop CS5 onto photo paper, but for some reason this is not going well.
I've tried playing around with the settings I get for the printer from Photoshop - but with no luck.
Here are some pics of what is happening:
Printing on photo paper but in black and white...
Printing on photo paper in color...
What I'm using
OSX (Snow Leopard with latest updates)
Photoshop CS5
HP Deskjet 5552 (with latest drivers from HP)
Will be very grateful of any help - or just to know that someone else is having the same problem.
Cheers

Anyone??
Find it hard to believe that I'm the only person that has the issue...

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