Only printing partial pages

I have the Photosmart c4795.  I installed it wirelessly and it would only print partial pages.  I contacted HP and followed the e-mail instructions to delete and reinstall the software.  It is still only printing partial pages.  Note that when I reinstalled it I did not install it wirelessly.

I'm having the same problem happens nearly all the time.  I am using Picasa on a Macbook Pro and an HP C309A series printer.  I'm running Lion OS and the drivers are supposedly incorporated into the OS there are no more firmware updates.  We're all current - only started happening after I installed Lion.
I'm NOT IMPRESSED and will look for a NON-HP solution if HP can't come up with a solution!

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