PDF printing problem

[Geoffrey Wilfred Combes]

I am running 12.10LTS with an HP Photosmart 5520 printer.
When I print from a PDF file, irrespective of its source, the print area
is displaced upwards on the paper. As a result printing at the top of
the printed area is partly or wholly missed. To print PDFs successfully
I must do so with MS XP on another machine and a Canon printer. 
The HP prints LibreOffice files correctly.
I do quite a bit of desktop publishing from PDF files which I produce in
12.10LTS but then I must move the files across to XP to print them. This
is annoying.
Printing previews are OK, but the printing is not and I can't find any
way of adjusting for the error.
Your help would be appreciated.
Geoffrey Combes