Printing with macbook

Hey i have a printer on my wireless network, and both my iBook and Mac Mini print fine, but the Macbook prints the same documents with half the letter missing and it looks terrible...the font even looks different...why is this? can this be fixed? thanks

I'm having this exact problem with my MacBook. All my computers (PowerMac G3, iBook G3) print just fine to my HP Deskjet 842c, but my MacBook prints with an incorrect font, with the letters half cut off. The printing is not readable.
The difference is that I'm printing directly over USB...no networked printing here, so it's got to be a driver problem. I've tried the up to date Universal driver included in Mac OS X 10.4.8, the Gimp Print beta driver, and the PPC (Rosetta) driver downloadable from HP...same trouble all three places.
A search on HP's website has been no help, but the problem is definitely in my Macbook, because all my other Mac's play nicely with my printer.
Anyone have any ideas?

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