OS X printing too large

I have a MBP with 10.6 that is printing images to large. By printing too large, I mean that the image of the page is being blown up too big - text is way too large and elements of the page are being cut off. This happens especially with web pages. None of my other computers (Mac and PC) have this problem. Any ideas?
Message was edited by: Gil Ramirez

Turns out the problem was in FireFox. Feel free to delete this question.

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== This happened ==
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