Printing blank pages

can you try deleting the existing print queue for this printer using command 'hp-setup -r' and retry configuring the print queue using command 'hp-setup'.
Run command 'hp-testpage' and let us know if the testpage is getting printed.

Thanks,
goutam

Thanks goutam.

I'm afraid just another blank page.

Output of hp-check -t after following your steps:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.15.7)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 15.1

Copyright (c) 2001-15 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the
HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies
are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro
supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball
has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode
will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Check types:
a. EXTERNALDEP - External Dependencies
b. GENERALDEP - General Dependencies (required both at compile and run time)
c. COMPILEDEP - Compile time Dependencies
d. [All are run-time checks]
PYEXT SCANCONF QUEUES PERMISSION

Status Types:
    OK
    MISSING - Missing Dependency or Permission or Plug-in
    INCOMPAT - Incompatible dependency-version or Plugin-version

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

 Kernel: 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 14 21:43:30 UTC 2015 GNU/Linux
 Host: J-cREAtions
 Proc: 3.13.0-63-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 14 21:43:30 UTC 2015 GNU/Linux
 Distribution: ubuntu 14.04
 Bitness: 32 bit

-----------------------
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
-----------------------

HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.15.7
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is supported for ubuntu distro 14.04 version

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.15.7

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.15.7
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.15.7
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp
bin=/usr/bin

# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=no
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=no
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.15.7
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=no
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
Plugins are not installed. Could not access file: No such file or directory

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
[installation]
date_time = 08/09/15 17:37:04
version = 3.15.7

[upgrade]
notify_upgrade = true
last_upgraded_time = 1441620078
pending_upgrade_time = 0
latest_available_version = 3.15.7

[settings]
systray_visible = 0
systray_messages = 0

[last_used]
device_uri = "hp:/usb/officejet_5500_series?serial=MY42BF206696"
printer_name = officejet_5500
working_dir = .

[commands]
scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%

[refresh]
rate = 30
enable = false
type = 1

[polling]
enable = false
interval = 5
device_list =

[fax]
voice_phone =
email_address =

 <Package-name> <Package-Desc> <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status> <Comment>

--------------------------
| External Dependencies |
--------------------------

 gs GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer REQUIRED 7.05 9.10 OK -
 scanimage scanimage - Shell scanning program OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.23 OK -
 xsane xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE OPTIONAL 0.9 0.998 OK -
 cups CUPS - Common Unix Printing System REQUIRED 1.1 1.7.2 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is running'
 policykit PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework OPTIONAL - 0.105 OK -
 network network -wget OPTIONAL - 1.15 OK -
 avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - 0.6.31 OK -
 dbus DBus - Message bus system REQUIRED - 1.6.18 OK -

-------------------------
| General Dependencies |
-------------------------

 libcrypto libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library REQUIRED - 1.0.1 OK -
 python-dbus Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus REQUIRED 0.80.0 1.2.0 OK -
 reportlab Reportlab - PDF library for Python OPTIONAL 2.0 3.0 OK -
 python-notify Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications OPTIONAL - - OK -
 pyqt4 PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x) REQUIRED 4.0 4.10.4 OK -
 python-xml Python XML libraries REQUIRED - 2.1.0 OK -
 libusb libusb - USB library REQUIRED - 1.0 OK -
 cups-image CUPS image - CUPS image development files REQUIRED - 1.7.2 OK -
 libnetsnmp-devel libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.7.2 OK -
 sane-devel SANE - Scanning library development files REQUIRED - 1.0.23 OK -
 pil PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan) OPTIONAL - 1.1.7 OK -
 python2X Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.6 OK -
 pyqt4-dbus PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4 REQUIRED 4.0 4.10.4 OK -
 libjpeg libjpeg - JPEG library REQUIRED - - OK -
 libpthread libpthread - POSIX threads library REQUIRED - 2.19 OK -
 python-devel Python devel - Python development files REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.6 OK -
 cups-devel CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files REQUIRED - 1.7.2 OK -
 sane SANE - Scanning library REQUIRED - 1.0.23 OK -

---------------
| COMPILEDEP |
---------------

 libtool libtool - Library building support services REQUIRED - 2.4.2 OK -
 gcc gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler REQUIRED - 4.8.4 OK -
 make make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs REQUIRED 3.0 3.81 OK -

----------------------
| Python Extentions |
----------------------

 cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK -
 hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK -

-----------------------
| Scan Configuration |
-----------------------

 scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK -
 hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.15.7 OK 'hpaio found in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'

-----------------------
| Other Dependencies |
-----------------------

------------------------------
| DISCOVERED SCANNER DEVICES |
------------------------------

device `hpaio:/usb/officejet_5500_series?serial=MY42BF206696' is a Hewlett-Packard officejet_5500_series all-in-one

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------- ------------------------
  hp:/usb/officejet_5500_series?se HP officejet 5500 series
  rial=MY42BF206696

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

officejet_5500
--------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/officejet_5500_series?serial=MY42BF206696
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/officejet_5500.ppd
PPD Description: HP Officejet 5500 Series, hpcups 3.15.7
Printer status: printer officejet_5500 now printing officejet_5500-489. enabled since TRendering completed4:31 BST
Communication status: Good

--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------

USB officejet_5500 Required - - OK Node:'/dev/bus/usb/002/003' Perm:' root lp rw- rw- rw- rw- r--'
No errors or warnings.

Done.

can you run command 'sudo hp-logcapture' in terminal to capture the log files for our analysis.
This generates a tar file in the current directory with the name hplip-troublshoot . Please attach the file to https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/271177/+makebug

Thanks,
Goutam

Sorry I am not familiar with this, I hope I did it right and attached the correct file.
After sending test page this time to create the capture log as you asked, the printer kept printing blank pages over and over until I cancelled the job.
But in terminal it did say the logs were saved even though the printer was still printing (blank) over and over... so I hope I have done as you asked.

Thank you for helping

I copied output from terminal when I made the log, don't know if I am to post this or not but here it is and I attached the file to a bug as you said:

Existing /var/log/syslog log file copied to /var/log/syslog.9.gz
Existing /var/log/messages log file copied to /var/log/messages.8.gz
Existing /var/log/cups/error_log log file copied to /var/log/cups/error_log.9.gz

Please perform the tasks (Print, scan, fax) for which you need to collect the logs.
Are you done with tasks?. Press (y=yes*, q=quit):y

Logs are saved as /home/red/Desktop/hplip_troubleshoot_logs.tar.gz
Please create a bug @https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+filebug and upload this log file.