Photoshop, HP Color Laser and Leopard

Hi all
Just been setting up a Macbook Pro running latest Leopard update.
Updated to newer HP Driver for the Color Laserjet 2550C.
Prints OK from Preview but printing from Photoshop produces only pages of machine language across the top of each page for endless pages.
Print spooler shows something like "can't create bounding box"
Anyone know what the problem is here ?
Kind Regards
Eric

Hi Chris
After much searching for the right words I found this on the Adobe site but haven't tried it yet.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402377&sliceId=1
Kind Regards
Eric

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