Restore system using time machine

I am having a bit of printing issues.  I will print something that is an inch by an inch but instead of the printer finishing the print and feeding the paper out, it prints a faint blue tint all the way down until the page feeds all the way throught to then end of the page. 
So i updated my printer drivers and it worked just fine for a day.  then it went back to how it was.  How do i get back to a back up where it was working correctly?  This is my first time with a mac, i'm coming from windows and it was super easy to do an entire system restore - Mac, not so much. 
Any ideas how to help me?

Have a read here How do I restore my entire system?
Stefan

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    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
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    Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x0000000000366000
    Crashed Thread: 1
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