Printing in Illustrator

I've been trying to print my document I created in Illustrator however it keeps printing off center and no where near what it looked like in the program. I tried printing it as a pdf but that also came out not centered. I did at test page in Microsoft Office, which printed centered. Any idea what could be wrong or how I truly align to center in the Illustrator program?

Kimberly,
Have you examined (all) the printer options in the printer dialog, including the printer properties?

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YOu have not provided any system info, version info or details about your printer. This is not going anywhere beyond stating the obvious - your system is not color managed.
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Firefox
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ect.
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Does anyone have experience managing the color printing from illustrator CS4 to an HP Photosmart Pro 9180?
I am getting pretty innaccurate color. I usually do all my priinting thru photoshop but now need to do a lot of tiled printing so am working with AiCs4.
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Hi Jo-Winch I hope you are doing well and welcome to the HP forum
If I understand correclty.
You are regiter to Eprint.
you already have an e-mail assigned to the printer
You are trying to send a print job thru that email and is giving the error that you describe
If that is the case then check if the email's sender (probably you) included a signature included in the email. If thatis the case Removed and try again.
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Your new document setting are correct, CMYK & 8.5 x 11.
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