Printing via windows 7 with printers hosted on xp machines

Hi im having a real issue with my windows 7 machines when printing
I have a hp colour laserjet cp5225n that is set up locally on a windows xp machine, from the local machine that it is connected to it prints colour fine but if you try to print from any of the machine connected via the network it will only print parts of the page in colour and the rest in black and white.
I have checked the drivers and they all have the hp universal pcl6 driver installed, also on the features tab some are set to colour whist other are set as no against colour.
can anyone help please?

This seems to be a commercial product. For the best chance at finding a solution I would suggest posting in the forum for HP Business Support!
You can find the Commercial Laserjet board here:
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-LaserJet/bd-p/bsc-413
Best of Luck!
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