Using network printers

I purchased a PowerBook G4 running Tiger 10.4.3. I am part of a small ethernet network. All other computers are PCs. I had no trouble connecting to a hp laserjet printer on the network. We have a hp officejet 7100 printer connected to one of the PCs. My Mac seems to find it ok but it only prints garbage. The printer is not listed on the "add printers" list in the printer setup utility. I downloaded the latest printer driver from hp for that printer. It works great if the printer is connected directly to my Mac, but still won't work for me when it is connected to the pc. Any suggestions? Thanks.

The MacOS printer drivers provided for most inkjet and all-in-one printers won't support network printing to shared Windows printers.
You need to follow the instructions posted at http://www.efelix.co.uk/tech/3004.html . Key among those instructions is the installation of the third-party printer driver HPIJS along with Ghostscript - see http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/

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