Printed pages do not align

I am using a technical drawing program called SmartDraw to produce line drawings. A typical drawing, when printed out on my HPDeskjet F2280, using A4 paper, takes up four sheets of A4 paper.
The problem is that when I assemble the pages to make up the complete drawing, I find that some lines do not match up.
There are clear discrepencies of up to 4 millimetres which makes it impossible to assemble an accurate drawing.
The problem must be with the printer rather than the software.
Does anyone know if this can be solved?

You're printing in-house two-sided on a desktop printer, right? The misalignment you see is on spread that consist of one side on one piece of paper and tthe other side on a different sheet of paper after the printing and assembly is finished, is that correct also?
If so, there's not much you can do about it other than adjust your design, which is not a good solution it the job is ultimately destined for commercial printing. Desktop printers typically have front-to-back and sheet-to-sheet registration tolerances on the order of plus-or-minus 1/16 inch which means the total drift vertically or horizontally can be as much as 1/8 inch between successive sides or succesive sheets, and it won't necessarily be consistent from sheet to sheet. For desktop output I tend to use larger margins to disguise the drift, and I usually don't us automatic duplexing (but some machines are better than others, so it depends on the equipment), and feed from whichever tray, including the bypass tray if available, seems to give the best registration results.

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