Text Prints as Black Instead of Assigned Swatch

Hi, I have been having problems with text printing to a HP laser 5500dn printing as black in
stead of the assigned swatch color.
I am using CS3 on a Mac.
It will print fine exported to PDF or printed on an inkjet.
I have reset preferences.
In the print dialogue box I have the following settings.
I DO NOT have "Text as Black" selected.
Color Management is: US Web Coated SWOP v2
Color Handling is Let InDesign determine Colors
Printer Profile is Document CMYK US Web Coated SWOP v2
Output color is Composite CMYK (Unable to change in this configuration)
Lastly, after printing and then closing the document,ID asks to save changes, When I cancel and review what edits were done, the last edit comes up as
"Undo Change Ink"
I don't know what that means.
Suggestions?
Thanks

Thanks for your help.
I haven't deleted the swatch or converted to another color.
Not sure what you mean by aliasing the swatch.
I did as suggested and looked in the printer setup in the print dialog and did not see anything to print text as black.
So I ended up changing the text to several different colors and now it prints those colors fine.
I think the color is so dark as to appear to be black when printing even though it is very apparent on the monitor that it is much different than black.
I know that monitor colors and printer colors won't match, but this had me very baffled.
Especially as the PDF printed much differently.
So I guess I am going to print from the PDF to make sure the colors are as I want them to be.
I work predominantly on a PC with CS3 that does not have Indesign; the Mac has CS3 with InDesign. The Mac routinely prints all documents much darker than the PC and what is displayed on the screen.
Thanks, again.

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