Laserjet not printing from some applications

Dear all,
I am having some trouble with my HP Laserjet P1005. I am finding that it just refuses to print anything from either Adobe Reader or Safari but has not problems printing from Word or Firefox. There are no error message, the document goes to the queue and is just 'stopped' for no reason. Pressing resume obviously has no impact. I have d/l-ed the most recent drivers from HP to no avail.
Any help would be much appreciated,
Akshay

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