Printing incorrect characters

I have a HP 4500 wireless printer-and downloaded the driver from the web site( I had originally installed this via the disk)
Still have a problem, which is now worse than before when it printing a PDF-top half prints correctly-bottom half-characters, etc.
Some of the document in the middle is correct.
Any idea.s

It sounds like the PDF program has become corrupted.  I have seen many cases where printing the PDF comes out as described and repairing the installation of the PDF program (usually Adobe Reader) typically corrects it.  It actually has very little to do with the printer or print driver as the corruption of the print job happens from the program source and the printer only prints what it receives.  If it is the printer driver, it should be happening with other programs as well.  Since the driver was updated and it still occurs, then it sounds like the PDF program is corrupted.
Here is a help document from Adobe detailing how to repair the installation.  Adobe Reader is the most common PDF printing program.  If you are using a different program, please let me know.
Let me know what happens.
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