Help! Network printing

I am connected to a printer on another computer. When I request a print job, it goes to the printer, but the "million"pages that come out are blank. I have the Mac mini, the shared printer is HP Windows XP, printer is a HP Color LaserJet 3600n. The Mac knows the printer is there, but prints blanks and lots of them. I hope I explained this ok. Anybody got any ideas why this is happening.
Thanks for your help.

Can you print to the printer normally if it's plugged in directly to your Mac mini? Have you installed the most recent driver?
-Doug

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Can you go into the Windows service, Logs, Printer Service. Copy and paste the log here. What I am looking for is a line like lpr: CANNOTCONNECTCLIENT or something similar to this.
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Connected to that is my Tiger server with 2 lan ports, one is connected to that network and the other connected to a switch where I run all my macs - the server is a basic file and software update server.
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