HP Laserjet 5si is printing postscript, not the print job

What is the adjustment that needs to stop my HP Laserjet 5si from printing page after page of postscript jibberish?
Thanks to everyone that helped me to install this printer in my System Printer cue. After the present problem is solved, all should be well.

I eliminating my router and connecting the 5si directly to the Mac's Ethernet port. Now nothing happens, other than an error message that my network is busy.
You'll likely have to delete the exiting Printer in Printer Setup Utility and redo it after moving it... it may not even work without setting the IP of the hp to the same range as the Mac, without the Router handing out DHCP.
On the Garbage, if the 1st page starts out something like this, then it may think it's a Line Printer instead of a PostScript Printer...
"%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Copyright: ....
%%Creator: ... (PostScript 1.0p Beta.1)
%%Title: 6pak Whi JrMac2007.pgs
%%Copyright:
%CreationDate: 2008-4-10 11:35
%%For:
%%BoundingBox:0 0 612 792
%%Pages:
%%DocumentFonts:
%%DocumentNeededFonts:
%%DocumentSuppliedFonts:
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
% $VER: PostScript.prolog 1.4 (14.11.97)
%Copyright ...
/AsphaltDict dup 200 dict def load begin
% basic definitions
/dko true def
/cko true def
/bdef {bind def}b"

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