Printer Problems Help

[Swimmer]

I have an HP Pavilion 2.4 gig computor with a HP Photosmart c6180 all-in-one printer. About a year or so ago the printer started having communication problems with the computor. Recently I found it necessary to delete the printer drive several times and reinstall numerous times, as was suggested by the manual, to jump start the printer. When I first did this, the printer would work for a while, and as time passed it worked a span of time less than the time before. One of the warning boxes that comes up prt way through each drive re-load, and just briefly, making it hard to read the box, is one that says the cable might be gone that runs between the computor and printer. It said I might need a high-speed cable, and by that I understood this to mean, the one I have is not high speed or it is failing.

Any ideas???????????????