Printing on a shared printer on a network Windows PC

I've successfully located and added a Brother HL-1030 laser printer attached to Windows PC on my Linksys network. When I added it, Generic printer driver was selected. Brother doesn't have a Mac driver for my model on its site.
The problem is that whenever I print a document, no matter how many pages, the printer spits out 5 or so blank pages. Does anyone else have this problem or knows of a solution? Is it the driver?
Thanks.

It sounds like the printing system is having a problem loading one of the files it uses during normal operation.  You can open the Console application (/Applications/Utilities).  On the left side of the window, you should see a list of logs.  If not, click the show logs icon at the top left of the window.  Navigate (you may need to click several disclosure triangles) down to /var/log/cups/error_log.  Are there any messages of note in the error_log?  It should be leaving a lot of messages about what sort of trouble it is having.  The most common errors in cases like yours are that it cannot read the configuration file of the printers.conf file.

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