Bad or incorrect printer driver in SL

I have a network setup that includes a Fedora 11 box sharing my HP 5610 printer via CUPS. The Fedora box can print to the printer without issue. However, when I try to print from my MBP running SL, anything B&W doesn't print, it just spits out a sheet of paper, and anything color will only print magenta, and in the upper corner of the page. I'm fairly certain this is a driver issue with SL (although I can't prove that, I only have two computers right now so no way to test it), but I don't know how to solve it. The Generic Postscript is the driver that behaves as above. If I choose the HP driver, it doesn't even get to the printer. Can't find anything else in the driver listing that would make sense. I'm hoping someone has seen this before and can point me to a quick resolution. I'm also willing to accept potential config issues with CUPS, although this setup did work about 6 months ago with 10.5.X, but it's been a while. I'm going to try to find another machine that I can use to test this, but for now, I'm stumped. Thoughts?
-Pete

Pete,
The OfficeJet 5610 is not a PostScript printer, so unless your Fedora box is acting as a PostScript rip, I don't understand why that would be working. Technically it should just work if you use the HP driver for that printer, just make sure you are using the latest HPIJS driver your printer as well. There may be a driver mismatch issue.
Just trying to help.
Andrew

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