Need help! Printer printing garbage characters and non stop until out of paper

Hi,
I have a computer lab that has 25 workstations. The workstations are installed with Adobe CS5 suite. Sometimes when trying to print Indesign files, the printer started to go haywire. It will print out garbage character and printing non stop until ran out of paper.
Any help will be great. Thanks in advance.
Network printer: HP colorjet CP4525
OS: Win XP SP3
Software: Indesign CS5

There is no such thing as a Generic Adobe PostScript driver. What is posted on the adobe.com website is a driver installer that simply associates PPD files with the standards Windows PostScript driver that comes with Windows itself. That installer only works with versions of Windows up to and an including Windows XP 32-bit. It does not work with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server, or any 64-bit version of Windows.
Also note that although the HP CP4525 “supports PostScript” it is not a printer with Adobe PostScript 3, but rather, CloneScript from a third party.
Having said that and understanding that you are currently using a PCL6 driver, I would recommend the following:
(1)     Try using the PCL5C driver for the printer. PCL6 and its drivers was always dodgy anyway.
(2)     Turn off the printer's automatic page description language sensing. That feature attempts to guess as to whether PCL or PostScript is currently being sent to the device and switch language processors. It really isn't necessary because HP's drivers prepend the print job with information as to which page description language is being used.
Given the unreliable nature of HP's emulation of PostScript, I would not recommend using any HP LaserJet's PostScript mode for any model of LaserJet in recent memory.
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