Randon printing issues (font gibberish)

Has anybody ever seen this before: You can print fine 80% of the time, but the other 20% the printout has garbled fonts. I have a user who's computer is doing just that. Every now and then, she hits print, and it comes out as gibberish - and she can immediately hit print again (without changing anything) and it comes out fine. She is the only user having this trouble, and it happens to every printer she prints too (primarily a Brother 5250 and a Xerox Phaser 7750) so I don't think it's the printer drivers. I've tried replacing all her system fonts from an identical machine, but won't know for sure yet if that's the issue. As anybody else seen this?

We have been having the same intermittent issue, although perhaps only 5% of the time or less.
It has occurred using two different laser printers (by two different manufacturers). It also is visible in on-screen previews (including FileMaker's preview mode as well as Print/ Preview), which would seem to rule out any printer hardware issue.
It has occurred with two different fonts, which were both Adobe OpenType fonts.
What we have found is that re-printing or re-previewing the document can occasionally resolve the problem, or just produce a different set of gibberish.
PowerMac G4, dual 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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