Printing in preview

When trying to print in preview or when copying some text from an internet site and pasting in word, the print preview records two separate images of the same item and then prints them one over the other, resulting in a complete mess. My canon ip5000 printer prints normally any other time, i.e in word, excel etc.
How do I fix this?

Hi Skilled,
So everything you print from any application prints mirrored? Let's try to fix that rather than looking for a work-around, as you found for Word.
This sounds like a printer option. One would use it for printing iron-on transfers for t-shirts, for example. Check all the printer settings for something like that. Then let's delete and re-setup the printer: /Applications/Utilities/Printer Setup Utility.
Good luck,
John

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Recently installed Elements (not the trial, the paid version) on a new MacBook Pro, and it not only won't print, the Print Preview is blank. Wondering if it was the document, so I created a new document with Elements, painted a few strokes, and tried printing again. Same result. The Print Preview is blank. The thumbnail of the image DOES show up in the Print dialog box. I re-installed the software. I deleted and re-installed the printer. I restarted the computer. All other apps are able to print, and Preview app is able to print the same documents that Elements will not print. I've been doing IT for years, and I've never seen anything like this. Any suggestions?

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Begin forwarded message:
From: Alina Hashim <[email protected]>
Date: May 11, 2011 8:25:20 AM GMT+04:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Photoshop Elements 9 prints and Previews are blank
Yes, sorry for the confusion. Normally i go to the web link to post message but it didn't work this time, so i replied directly from email and that seem to be ok.
Anyway, my printer is Canon MG5240. After reading your thread, I installed updated driver from Apple (printer driver for Mac) and when still cannot print, I called a canon rep here and asked about it and he said to go into canon website only. So I loaded driver from Canon website which also didn't seem to change anything. When I was using Elements 9 trial version i did not have problem printing from the software.

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