foomatic + lsjet3 and left most characters are not printing

I have a laserjet 3 and I am using the foomatic+ lsjet3 recommended driver with knoppix 3.6. I am noticing that the leftmost characters are not being printed from an HTML page in konqueror. The printer is printing on the whole of the page but it has 4 to 5 characters missing from the leftmost portion of the html page .

Note: this also happens with kwrite.

The strange thing is that this doesn't happen when printing from within OpenOffice, the whole page seems to print correctly.