HP LaserJet 2100TN and MacOS 10.4.2

May wife and I have been using our HP LaserJet 2100TN since a couple of years, originally with her blue/white iBook and my PowerBook Titanium, and since this spring with her 12" PowerBook G4 (867MHz, 768 MB of RAM, MacOS 10.4.2) and my 17" PowerBook G4 (1.67MHz, 1.5 gig of RAM, MacOS 10.4.2), both using our AirPort WiFi home network (the base station with the Ethernet jack in the back). As to the software side, we both do our word processing with Microsoft Word X (Service Pack 1). Everything was just plug&play, WYSIWYG, and fine.
Since a couple of days, however, our LaserJet prints out weird characters in our Word documents, regardless of what PowerBook we print from. The characters are actually still OK, but totally mixed up to nonsense words, and sometimes incorrectly spaced, as well. We first realized this problem when using typical decorative fonts (such as "Party LET"). When things started to deteriorate in "Times", too, we decided to post this SOS.
Does anyone know this problem, and how to fix it? Please note that we already reset the printing system in the pertinent control panel. Besides, we keep presuming that, in Tiger, there are no more HP LaserJet 2100TN drivers to download and install. Oh yeah, and the usual shut down/restart, and quit/re-open procedures do not seem to work, either.
Thanks in advance for your appreciated help!

Give the drivers on HP's site a shot. They are available at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=149 18&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=25469&prodTypeId=18972&swEnvOID=219
Technically in most cases you should not need drivers, but the fact that HP's website says "os X 10.4 update" as the driver makes me think they might have a problem with 10.4's stock driver. So give that a shot and let me know if it helps. Good Luck!

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Many, many thanks. This worked for me.
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