C4480 (windows xp) documents are suddenly printing gibberish

I've done the obvious like rebooting system and printer, ran hp printer diagnostics (no problems), and realigned.  I can't figure what has gotten out of whack.  Perhaps if someone has the code for me to manually reset the printer to factory default...  Any advice?

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