Network printer printing total gibberish

Where I work we recently got some new Quad G5s and so far they haven't liked our printer for whatever reason. We have a Brother HL-1850-1870N series printer that is hooked up to our network. I go to the System Preferences, press the + button to add the printer, it shows up automatically with either a Shared Printer connection. I added the printer, and when I try to print I get tons and tons of sheets each with a few lines of random symbols like smiley faces, arrows, characters printed on top of each other.
Does anyone know what's going on here?
Quad 2.5Ghz Power Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Awesome, I downloaded the new drivers for the printer (there were OS 10.4 specific ones) and it worked like a charm. I guess I gave OS X more credit than it deserved in this case, thanks!

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