Printing problem on HP Deskjet 6980

When printing from Illustrator or InDesign CS2 with text or a graphic that has been copied and pasted to a different spot in the same document page, the HP Deskjet 6980 will not print the copied version in the lower right quarter of the page. Very strange.
I have updated drivers for the printer and software for the programs, but problem continues. Any suggestions?

Hello There,
I too have a similar problem printing from CS2 to an HP6940. When printing I only get half the page and the scaling is way off. I've contacted HP and they say it is an Adobe issue since the printer prints from other applications. As a work around, I just save my files as PDFs and print from Acrobat and they come out fine then. But I would like to see this issue resolved as I like to turn layers on and off and print.

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