Photoshop CS4 / Windows7 Print Shrinkage

Okay, this is driving me nuts.
I had created a document with Photoshop CS4 on Windows XP Professional to the following: 8-1/2" x 11" at 300dpi, cmyk. It printed fine on the network printer (xerox phaser 7760dx ps) for weeks.
Two weeks ago I was upgraded to Windows 7 and that same document now prints so tiny, I can barely measure it. I've tested other programs and they print fine; I've tested other documents in Photoshop and some print okay, others also shrink. I have gone through the page setup, print settings, printer settings, and anything else I can think of. I have even tried to "Print to Adobe PDF" and gotten the same tiny result!!
What could I be missing? What is causing this?

You should read this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/22582?start=0&tstart=0

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PS is assigned 70% RAM. In fact, I have never had so much RAM in my life. Files open at lightning fast speed! :-) We have never considered a RIP as we do not have an intense workload. In fact all the files we have tried to print print well on our old G4 with Tiger and Photoshop 7, which at the moment has saved our butt. However it would be nice to get the new faster machine with Photoshop CS4 to talk to the Epson 11880.
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