Problem with HP DeskJet 845c in 10.4 Tiger

Recently I migrated an iBook G3 from Mac OS 9 to MacOS X (Tiger 10.4.10). And we also use a new MacBook.
But there's a big problem with the *HP DeskJet 845c* Printer:
- printing works with Word, but *doesn't with AppleWorks or Mail (2.1.1)*
- I have the latest Updates and looked for the latest HP DeskJet software, but this is the newest, version 3.3
- I spoke with HP support, but they said that this is a problem in OS X
- until now in MacOS 9 the printer worked fine
The problem is:
- from Mail only the header will be printed, but not the message itself
- from AppleWorks is ssems as if only the first "pixel-rows are printed from each line
Any help?

Hello, Same problem with HP Deskjet 895Cse. I had printer on my G4 tower running 10.3. My macbook pro was networked through the G4 to printer, all good. I just moved my printer and plugged in directly to macboook pro USB port................ Iregular printing. With normal size fonts, 12, just the top few pixels of each sentence gets printed. With larger fonts like 36 or 48, the print is pretty interesting, but not readable. Sometmes it just spits out pages with 1 sentence, top bit only, on each page. Appleworks, word & pdf's from preview, all print the same. HP alignment, HP test , HP clean all show normal. ?????????????????????

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Hello @Tellen,
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