Christmas Mac noob!  First question is on printing

Greetings to the Mac community from a lifelong Windows/DOS geek. I have a brand-new MacbookPro that I'm muddling my way around -- I'm on Day Two, and so far so good, except...I can't print successfully.
Details: HP Laserjet 3200 all-in-one, networked via a Windows box running XP. My new MBP prints fine to the network --great! -- except it's gibberish. What should be a half-page doc runs on for 10-20 pages or more; looks like some kind of secret Mac code. Sounds like a driver issue, right? I've tried the HP 3200 drivers showing up on the MBP list when I "add printer," and so far nothing is working. Should I be crawling into the Windows box and doing something there?
TIA

Kren wrote:
Thanks, that seems eminently logical. Only question: I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure the printer cable is not compatible with my laptop's available connections. I guess I need some kind of adapter.
The best info I can find says that this printer shipped with both parallel and USB interfaces, so you should be able to hook it up via the USB port simply by buying a USB cable.
The parallel port won't work reliably under Mac OS X, even with an adapter cable. You could buy one from a specialized cable company, but like the SCSI to FireWire adapters that were popular for a while, it wouldn't work that well.

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