Printing appears small

Does anyone have any idea why my printouts are appearing small? Whenever I select the print option the printout prints to the top left 25% of the page only and not the full page. This happens even though the print preview shows that it is going to print the full page. It is printing everything but just sqeezing it down to about 25% the original size. I always put settings to: Print full page, or Scale to 100% or Scale to Fit, etc
I am using Mac OS 10.6.8 on a MacBook (Older black type) using the applications Mail, Preview and Safari. MS Word prints ok which is leading me to think that perhaps this issue is tied to the Mac OS. The printer is a Canon MX350 but my feeling is that this is not a printer issue as the problem is not consistent, it seems to varry across applications.
Any thoughts appreciated.

Using Safari as the program from which to print -
Check in the Print window (the window that appears when you select Print from the File menu, or press Command-P). There's a pulldownmenu underneath the Orientation section; it should show Safari -
Click that menu and select Layout from it. The window will change to show some new items -
In particular, look at the item Pages per Sheet. If that is set to 4, then the page will be reduced and printed on just one-quarter of the paper. Resetting that to 1 should return the print to full-size.

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