Network printer printing raw data

Question

The printer is an HP PSC 1610 attached via USB to a Windows XP computer. It is shared over the network, and I located it on my Mac, but whenever I print something out of any program, it just prints something like this with increasing indents:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%RIBNumCopies: 1
%%Pages: (atend)
%APLDSCEncoding: UTF8
%%Title: (U
I don't know what else becuase it indents off the page. After this page it proceeds to print blank pages until I stop it.
When I downloaded the HP install software and attached my Mac directly with USB, it works fine. So it is only when I try to print over a network that I get this problem.
Any help would be great. Thanks.
Macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Answer 1

Network printing/Windows printing only works with a driver that was meant for network printing. To use the OS X built-in CUPS network choices, you need a CUPS driver. For postscript printers, it's not an issue, because postscript is the native output of OS X, and can easily be routed to the various choices in Printer Setup.
Non-postscript printers are Very Different. Except for Brother, no manufacturer has provided CUPS drivers. Instead, what you get are Carbon, OS9 legacy drivers, that have the comm protocol written into the driver (mostly USB). They can only print via local connection.
Short version - HP's driver only works for USB.
Install hpijs and ESP ghostscript:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/