Bonjour Printer installs OK but prints garbage symbols

I have installed Bonjour 1.0.4 on a fresh installation of Windows XP SP2. It installed fine and bonjour already had my printer in its list of drivers (HP DeskJet 815c), so set up was easy (I have my printer plugged into an airport express which my windows machine connects to over the LAN).
My mother's iMac printed to the printer fine over the LAN.
The Windows machine printed garbage instead of a nice simple A4 page of black & white. It prints garbage symbols, one or two lines a page and was going to go for many pages instead of just one.
I never restarted after installing either Bonjour or the printer but I wasn't prompted to.
Any suggestions on what I might do? Would the generic printer drivers be worth a go?

Hi
Try the drivers from the link below on the windows 8.1 unit
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4158&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=4204...
Hope this helps.
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