HP Laserjet 5000N problems

I am new Mac user having just purchased a Mac Pro computer. I have been using a very reliable and healthy 9 year old HP Laser Jet 5000N with my old PC. Connection via IP and LAN router. No problems for many years.
Not successful with connecting to new MAC. I have done the following:
- loaded latest HP MAC driver updates
- tried connecting via IP address and router ( computer sees Printer and correct IP Address) when trying to print the following one line of text is always printed "" % ! PS - Adobe - 3.0 Query userdict (\004) cvn { } put %%?BeginFeatureQuery: *HPOption_Tra ""
- I have read that sometimes the router can cause problesm so have also tried to connect to Printer Directly by passing the router
The Printer is OLD and does not have a USB port so I bought a Parralle to USB convertor cable with MAC software to try out. The computer sees the Printer both with the JetDirect connection and the LPD with correct IP. The printer again prints only the above text line and thats all.
As the Driver is suppose to be the latest from HP for MAC I and now lost. I do not want to replace this excellent printer but I am having to use old PC to do my printing which is NG.
Help.
SJ

What you are seeing printed is postscript code.
You didn't go into details of how you Added the printer in Print & fax, so I assume you used IP > LPD. That would probably work, if you used the correct queue name (ps or auto, I think). But to get the best result, use IP > HP Jetdirect (no queue name used with this protocol).
I haven't seen that printer - does it have an optional postscript card that is missing?
Experiment with the Gutenprint driver, or generic postscript or generic PCL 5 or 6.
It is Extremely Rare for a router to cause this kind of problem.

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