Why can't I print in color from Photoshop to my HP 3500 wireless printer?

I have Photoshop CS6. I just noticed last night that when I go to print files from Photoshop, (or even Preview right now... or straight from Google Chrome), it only prints grayscale. I have NOT figured out how to fix this setting in the HP 3511 wireless printer I have. Only options for "profiles" when I go to File - Print in Photoshop specifically, are Generic Gray Gamma 2.2, Generic Gray profile, and sGray. What is going on here? I have CMYK file I want to print.

Here are some screen shots...
I'm pretty sure I've been able to print out of there before. I haven't had this printer THAT long (since Christmas) and I haven't used it a ton. I do know I printed a PDF once with color and that worked fine. I tried a PDF tonight and it wouldn't print color on that either. The "grayscale" button was NOT checked on that, either.

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(0,255,255)
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(255,255,255)
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10
(255,0,0)
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(0,255,0)
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(128,255,128)
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(128,128,128)
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(0,0,0)
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(0,255,255)
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(255,0,255)
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(255,255,198)
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(255,255,255)
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(255,0,0)
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(0,255,0)
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(0,0,255)
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(128,128,255)
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(128,255,128)
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