Laserjet 5000n on 10.4.11

I am new to Macs, though very conversant with PCs. At work I find an oldish Mac Pro, intel processor 2 x 2.66, 10GB memory and running OS X 10.4.11. There is an HP Laserjet 5000n attaached which has 68MB memory. Wired connection to network
Printing a single page of a pdf takes about 10-15 mins. The same page prints out in under a minute on an Epson Stylus Photo R800
I have tried looking for an updated printer driver and there is one from HP. When I install it, the installed driver version does not change, although it appears to have gone through the full cycle.
I am not sure what the significance of appletalk is as opposed to "printing over ip." If I instal the printer to hp jetdirect nothing happens and if i point my browser at the ip address all i get is a message saying "Mac OS is not supported to run this application." The printer is currently connected theough appletalk.
Can anyone help. I should add that I added 8Gb of memory to the computer and 64MB to the printer, and both are recognised, but neither made any difference to the speed.
Will updating the OS improve the speed of printing?
IS there something specific about the laserjet.
I'm working for a not-for-profit organisation and there is no immediate budget for large scale upgrade and the equipment is otherwise quite satisfactory for preparing pdfs for printing commerically off site, using Adobe CS.

Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
In the new Location>Network>Show:>Ethernet>TCP/IP tab>Using DHCP>Manually...
IP: 192.168.3.12
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.3.8 (maybe?)

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