Printing with Gray background on entire page every time I print through Elements 12

Every time I print a photo in photoshop, a gray background appears on the entire page of the printed paper (except for 1/4th of an inch margin on all sides.) This does not happen when printing from iPhoto so I assume it is a preference in photoshop or in my driver/printer settings? I am set up for sublimation printing and with an ICC profile from Conde Systems. I work in RGB mode and use the specific color profile downloaded by Conde.
I have a feeling that when I set up my settings, I somewhere marked the "hard settings" or "default" background color to print in WHITE…which is somehow translating to gray when I print (this is just a guess.) I am thinking that a setting of mine is off yet I have no idea where to change it. If I open a new doc, specify that I want the background transparent, it will print without the gray box! However, if I open an image and simply hit "print" - the entire page is gray - which is wasting tons of ink. Creating the new doc and placing the image on that doc and then printing it is a fine temporary solution to the problem but it is not conducive to my business. Anyone with any knowledge on this situation would be a lifesaver. Happy to provide any additional details needed!!!
Please offer any insight you have - this has been driving me crazy for weeks!!
Thanks in advance.

The troubleshooting steps in the document here may help resolve the alignment pages printing on your Photosmart c4485 printer. Do both cyan and black print properly on the alitnment page?

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