Using a shared printer

Hi, I just got a new Intel iMac and I have been having problems printing from it. I have an iMac G3 that I use to store music and do backups using retrospect. There is a HP Photosmart 8200 series printer that is attached to the G3. I have set the G3 up to allow printer sharing and have doubled checked every thing. I then went on the Intel and set the printer up in system preferences. Checked all of that too. However, when I go to print from any application (safari, appleworks, pages, textedit, mail, etc.) the app freezes and quits. I have tried every thing I can think of. Any other ideas? Thanks

Thanks for the note. BIG HELP! I just finished downloading and installing the new drivers from HP. (All 130MB of it) Every thing seems to be working fine, however, when I choose print File>Print the app seems to hang for about 15-20 seconds before opening the print dialog. (This is only happening on the Intel. The drivers are universal). That just does not seem normal to me?!?! Thanks for any input.

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Dear Larry,
Thanks for reporting the problem. You mentioned that page content is getting shifted by around 3/8 inches when printed using Mac Airprint using Acrobat which resulted in clipping of some of the content and other applications print fine.
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