Printer sharing on bonjour changes margins

I have an HP Photosmart C4180 printer attached to my imac, and have been trying to print from two windows pcs wirelessly, using bonjour. The printer is recognized fine and I can print, but the margins appear to change so that the text is moved to the right hand side of the page and/or headers and footers are cut off. The results are the same from both computers, yet when printing the same documents from the mac they come out fine. Any solutions?

Add me to the list of people having similar problems since 10.5.6. except I can't print at all unless hooked up via USB.
Here a link to my thread describing my problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1967395&tstart=50

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