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If you have a friend who prints stuff on their printer and it works ... you could print something of their laptop. If it works, problem is on your computer - i.e. probably you docs are all page-feedy or your print driver (the software between the document and the printer) is messed up and generating and sending page feeds .

If you get the same problem when printing from friend's computer, problem is on your printer.

You could type a short paragraph in a new doc, print. Do you get blank pages? If so Backspace from the middle of the doc to the beginning, being sure you deleted everything to the beginning. Save -> print again. Still get it?

I think you said it's images that are doing it - is a short, say, notepad document doing it?

Do three different applications all do the same thing?

In other words, try a bunch of different stuff. If it never behaves differently, it's the printer or your print driver.

You could also try downloading and installing a new version of the driver.

But try a bunch of different stuff before you even try to fix ... all the little experiments will logically point to where the problem is, then you at least know where you have to fix something.

First thing I'd do is hook my friends computer (or another in the house) and attempt to print the same document that's NOT printing from your desktop.

PS I would not go re-installing the operating system just to tinker with a printing problem. First try to re-install the printer driver IF you're going to go down the route of replacing operating-systemy-stuff.

I use a mac at home specifically because mac's have fewer of these types of problems ... but if it's Windows ... reinstalling the Operating System is like ... your 3 year old child has a couple rashy bumps on his arm so you just willy nilly give him a complete blood transfusion and lobotomy.