Printing PDF to HP Color Laserjet 2550Ln result in Red images

When printing PDF documents to my networked HP Color LaserJet 2550Ln, usually the embedded images are covered in a red hue. This was already the case with MacOSX 10.4, but still continues with Leopard 10.5.2, using Bonjour. Printing the same document (also using Bonjour) via a windows machine (Windows XP SP2) results in a perfect copy.
Anyone an idea of the cause of this behaviour?
Regards,
Gerard

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