CS5 Print preview window heavly inconsistant with left margin

I can adjust my images to look fine in the print window display with the paper size I select. However the printed image does not accurately track what is shown in the preview.
It does not matter if I print borderless or with border.
I suppose it is a minor quibble in that moving the preview image left margin to the right (positive values) by small amounts the print out actually moves it to the left by that small amount. At first I thought this might be random paper alignment errors but the behavior is too consistent. But as I continued my tests I could not significantly/consistently shift the image to the right until a movement finally happened between 1/2 and 6/10ths of an inch. Only then did I get the actual 6/10th white border on the left side of the printout.
What the heck am I doing wong? Is this a bug? The old print preview was so much better as it gave a WYSIWYG output. Now it seems to be a crap shoot whether your border adjustments match your desired shift.
This is too blatant of an error to be a bug, so what am I overlooking? There seems to be some kind of rasterization of the movement going on I don't know about.

That's a bit surprising, in that I've found HP in general to support their released hardware better than most when a new OS is released.
But it's not unheard of.  Manufacturers don't benefit measurably by supporting old hardware, though it's a no-brainer that doing so builds brand loyalty.  In fact, I'm sure there are marketeers in these companies that actually believe forcing you to buy a new device is a Good Thing.  The printer is not supposed to be a consumable!
Scanners are more often devices that fall into this trap.  Over time I've thrown away two perfectly working scanners (one Canon and one Mustek) because they weren't supported by their manufacturer upon release of a new version of Windows.  On the other hand, my little, cheap HP 932c printer is still perfectly supported in Windows 7, even though I bought it back in the days of XP.  Perhaps it has something to do with numbers of units sold.
Anyway, best of luck getting things worked out.  I'm very sorry to hear that HP may be going the way of the other manufacturers. 
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