Photosmart Printer only prints part of page

I have a Photosmart C5180 All-in-One and am running windows XP 2002 SP 3 on an HP media center computer.
The printer is connected via USB cable which I recently replaced to no avail.
Problems started trying to print off the internet or when printing a document with large pictures and have now moved to word documents with data copied off the internet.
Sometime everything prints just fine. Other times (and this is becoming more frequent) the first few paragraphs will print and then the printer hangs. Sometimes if I wait 5 or 10 minutes it will print OK, However it usually stays hung. The printer screen shows printing and the power button light is flashing. After 10 minutes or so I often get a document failed to print error. When I bring up the print queue it will let me try to delete the document, but it won’t delete from the queue unless I turn the printer off.
Restarting printer and PC sometimes helps and the document will print. Again it is becoming more frequent that this does not solve the problem.
I have downloaded the printer diagnostic and run it. It says all is fine. If I run it after a document has hung it tells me there is a document stuck in the print queue. I click the fix button and it removes it. Then when I resend the document to the printer it hangs again.
In the print queue the document size does not fully download. i.e.. the current document I’m having problems with says in the Size column 38.9KB/132KB The status changes to Error – Printing.
This printer has done this off and on since I got it 3 years ago. Now it is getting so bad I can’t trust it.

HI,
Ok then you at least covered that part, as i still think its a spooler issue (so a windows issue) This page could help.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/printer-problems-in-windows
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