CUPS: Printing to remote printer

Hi,
I need help with setting printer using CUPS.
I have laser printer (that supports only PCL) connected to one of LAN computers.
This computer has Fedora Core 5 Linux with CUPS.
Linux and Windows computers are printing to that printer without any problems.
I would like print to that printer from Solaris 10 computer that has CUPS.
I have access to remote printer using:
http://localhost:631/admin
and can watch it's jobs and print test pages.
I downloaded suitable PPD file for the printer and put it to:
/opt/sfw/cups/share/cups/model
and executed command:
/opt/sfw/cups/sbin/lpadmin -p le232 -E -v ipp://10.0.0.201:631/printers/e232 -m Lexmark-Optra_E-hpijs.ppd
Now I see this printer on:
http://localhost:631/printers
After I tryed to print a test page, printer status changed:
Description: le232
Location:
Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs.
"Print file was not accepted (client-error-bad-request)!"
Device URI: http://10.0.0.201:631/printers/e232
Whats wrong?
What should I do to solve this problem?
Thank you.

I found solution on: www.lengers.com/?p=12
That works.
But now I have a new problem: instead page what I sent, it prints some junk text (it's probably PostScript).
I added printer using lpadmin command and use it with lp command.
maybe should I use lpr command?
I user the same *ppd file as on Fedora Core 5 print server and there it prints correctly.
Do I need some kind of convertor or filter (my printer understands only PCL)?
Thank you.

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