HP Printing Slightly Crooked offcenter

illustrator CS2-Windows XP-I have had adobe illustrator CS2 for 3 + years.I am self taught novice. Usage for grpahics. I use a HP b8350 printer great for a year w/adobe.The problem if you look at printed image it is askew. The bottom third of the image goes askew on the right about a 1/8 of an inch wider, noticable to my eye when printed on 8.5 x 11 image area 8 x 10. And viceversa for the left side it is an 1/8 smaller/narrow. MY Adobe files have never printed centered on the page. I called HP they literally tried for 5 days straight, hours of time on the phone and couldn't fix it. They gave up & sent me a new printer. I still have the same problem with the new printer. I also have lost fonts as well. I tried removing & reloading the software Adobe & HP. This is the student version and really has worked well. But I am tired of "living" with this problem. I read HP has some issues with printing adobe because of post script. I have know clue what all that means. I have manually adjust the image to be center and I have to rotate the image to compensate for the image being crooked. This can be a waste of paper, ink and time. originally when printer was set up I had to call HP because the image was printing with lines . HP had to change a .dll file...PLease help me! I think perhaps it's a driver but Hp tried that several times and it didn't fix it. I'd consider upgrading but I am afraid I would have the same problem & wasted monies. Adobe support will not help me because it is CS2 verison & said I she post here.Thank You

Try updating the drivers for the printer to see if that helps.
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