HP LaserJet 4250 Printer problem

A baffling problem:
Our building has 2 floors. This network printer resides on the 2nd floor. It is shared via the network and used the HP Universal PCL 6 (v.5.3) driver at first and then I switched it to the Universal PCL 5 (v.5.3) driver. Both produced the same error message for the people on one side of the 2nd floor, and people on the other side print fine.
The error is:
PCL XL error
Subsysten: Kernel
Error: MissingAttribute
Operator: SetHalftoneMethod
Position: 5
Why would it work for some folks and not others? Everyone is running 32 bit versions of Windows XP or 7, doesn't matter because both OS's are producing the same error for the folks on the one side of the 2nd floor. Their IP addresses run the gamut between our 3 subnets so that doesn't seem to be the issue either.
Any ideas?

Problem solved.
I upgraded the printer's firmware which resolved the issue.
Thanks anyway! :-)

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