Printer Dialog in foreign (chinese style) characters

I have a HP Photosmart C410 all in one printer. When I come to print from Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word, Excel, Notepad, the printer dialog has strange characters:
However, if I try properties from Adobe Reader X, it looks fine:
I have searched extensively and this appears to be a recurring problem over several years and several models so I presume there is an obvious answer?
Please note I have installed and re-installed the drivers twice already. Included re-downloading them from the HP website.
Any thoughts as I am wasting paper and ink as I can't select double sided nor draft printing!
Thanks.

I have the same issue. As you say it is only when trying to print from Office products or IE. Therefore I agree with the person who originally posted that it is not a system wide issue. as to contacting my PC manufacturer it is an HP (4 months old) The solution suggested also did not work for me either...Are there any other suggestions. I also have a feeling that it is a new issue that did not appear when I irst installed the software when I bought my new laptop back in March.

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