Printing to Ancient HP LaserJet 4L

Hi everyone. I know, I know, it's an ancient printer, but it still works! I know because I've used it to print from my husband's windows laptop. At the very least, I want to use up the toner in it.
So, here's the deal--I found a usb/serial cable (only $9), the OS recognizes its existence, comes right up in the Printer list. But, no output. If I print something to it, it just hangs out in the queue and doesn't get to the printer. It will print its test page.
I tried to download the drivers from the HP web site but it won't open the data connection.
Thoughts?

Hi Greg,
No luck, but I had to run Disk Utility differently than you suggested. Here's what I did:
Turns out I only have the upgrade CD for OS10.4. (Long story, but the short version is that my internal drive crashed earlier this year. It had OS10.3.9 on it, but the replacement HD had Tiger, and that's what they gave me with it when I picked it up.)
So I ran Disk Utility from my external drive (Firewire backup that gets everything copied to it every night). I set it up as the startup disk and repaired permissions on the internal drive, as well as verifying the disk, which returned no problems, so I did not repair the disk, just the permissions.
All the files that had permissions problems were in the ./library/printers/epson folder... hmmm. So, I reset the startup disk to my internal drive, restarted, and now have no changes.
I'm tempted to reinstall the system (since I do have all the preferences files on that external backup) but that seems a little extreme. Can I just delete that Epson folder in the ./Library folder, or just reinstall the printers? I'm at a loss now.
Should I go back and repair the disk even though it didn't return any errors?
Again, thanks so much for sharing your expertise.
--d

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