IMac 24 connection to HP 5100

I just got an HP 5100 printer to replace my old faithful 4MV but cannot get the new printer to print. I simply connected the ethernet cable from the 4MV to the 5100 Jet Direct card and all seems to work normally but, when I send a page to print, nothing happens. I've selected the 5100 in the print window and, in the printer monitor window, the file is qued up and the message is 'attempting to connect to host NPIB956A5.local. for printer BINPS'. The file is an Illustrator CS3 file.
When I connected the 4MV a while back I had to assign an address to the printer before it would print. Do I have to go thru that step with the 5100? If so, can you direct me to specific directions?
Note: the 5100 seems to be OK and prints a configuration page normally so I don't think the printer is the problem, just the connection.
Can you help? Thanks.

Marcus,
There is a printing forum for leopard users. I suggest you repost there. I also suggest you install the printer using the instructions it came with, from your description it sounds like you have totally bypassed that step.
The forum you need is: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1224
Best of luck,
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