My Printer has started missing or half printing random lines horizontally bottom half or top half

My Printer has started missing or half printing random lines horizontally. Bottom half or top half is missing . I have an Officejet Pro 750 and run Windows 7, 64 bit. For a while if I turned off normal mode and selected best, it was Ok. Now it doesn't matter which mode I use,I have done all the tests and cleaning required but no joy...Help

I have done what you suggested. However, I have to disagree with you about the 'third party' comment. Although those minor issues were on there which I picked up on shortly afterwards, they were easily removed. It hasn't CHANGED the symptoms I described about my mac. Both items are removed (growl only tends to make your mac 'lag' and that's not the problem I'm having)
I am still having all the above issues, regardless of my mac being fully minus third party items. This mac hasn't had any heavy use, or had many applications installed on it ect, there is really no reason for it to be failing. I'd understand if it was old, but it's literally only just passed being 3 years old.
If you can provide any more help that would be appreciated, thank you!

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