PDF prints ok B&W wrong in Color

I have a simple greeting card pdf that prints fine in B&W but when I print in color, the elements are in the wrong places. There should be a border at the Left of the page, and an image to the right with a wide white band between. In B&W this is fine. In color, it's all pushed over to the right margin. I've tried a new color cartridge and every setting known to man. I have a Deskjet 5940, running Windows XP. Never had problems before. HELP.

I tried loading the Deskjet 990c driver, since that was mentioned in another topic as a solution for borders at bottom of page. This works...intermittently. I am wasting tons of paper and ink trying to print a single card. It's hit or miss. I have to delete and reinstall the 990c driver...and if Im LUCKY it will work. I am VERY annoyed; my next printer will NOT be an HP, that's for sure.

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