Networked Mini prints everything large

My wife's Mac Mini running 10.5.8 has inexplicably been printing everything large no matter which app she uses as though the sent print job has been scaled--dunno--400%. It didn't used to do that, and I don't know what would have changed since she's been up to date on Software Updates for some time now. Her printer drivers and everything else are the latest versions according to Software Update. Telling an app to scale the page to 25% via Page Setup doesn't affect the print output.
She prints via Bonjour on a wired network through my Mac Pro. I haven't run any updates in some time since everything on my Mac has been working fine. I can print normally from my Mac Pro which, of course, is cabled directly via USB.
Any thoughts about how to approach this?
Message was edited by: MyKidsDad

Well, gaining information on uninstalling a printer driver seems nearly impossible, oddly enough, but I went to the Canon driver site, DL'd what they had, did the install without any formal uninstall, but that didn't help.
However, I found this thread - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1741969 - and I did what Kappy suggested in the first paragraph of his response. I don't understand what that does because it doesn't delete the driver as near as I can tell, it just resets the print/fax list so you have to re-add the printer to the list manually. In any case, that worked for me. Thanks much for your response... it led me in the right direction!

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