Firefox prints garbled text no matter what, from my XP-SP3 HT-P4 to my HP LJ 1200 PCL

I am using FF 3.6.13 on a HT-P4, 3 GHz, with XP-SP3, 4Gig RAM lots of HD space. Every other application on my machine prints fine to my HP LaserJet 1200 PCL (even MS Explorer and G-Chrome) but no matter what I do in terms of changing settings or fonts, no matter what webpage or HTML file I pull up in it, FF prints garbled text. Some times not all of the text is garbled but usually the parts I really need are the ones garbled.

I wonder whether anyone can give me advice on the above problem, thanks. Have upgraded to Firefox 9.

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