Printer prints garbage

I have my Photosmart c4180 All-in-One printer plugged into my Time Capsule. I have a wireless iMac, PC and Laptop and one wired PC all connected to it.
The iMac prints fine but the PCs all print garbage. They FIND the printer but still print garbage.
I have the HP drivers installed on each PC but it does not help.
Also, the scanner does not work now that it's plugged into the Time Capsule. I'm assuming thats normal, but if not, add THAT to my problems.
iMac running Leopard 10.5

I had to physically plug the printer INTO the XP PC for it to install the remainder of the drivers before unplugging it and plugging it into the Time Capsule.
And apparently HP doesn't make their scanners to work over a network (at least they don't have any patches so it'll work)

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what i am describing here has happened with a
powermac G4 running panther as well as with the new
macbook (black) with tiger.
both these computers as well as the printer are
connected to the university network, the printer (HP
laserjet 4250n) has an IP adress. i can set up the
printer as an IP printer with the adress, it is found
and recognized (and of course i have installed the
driver). i can do the same by using the default
browser option, then the computer recognizes the
printer and says connection: bonjour. of course i can
also directly connect to the printer with a usb
cable. i have tried all of these options, with both
computers, and from several applications, and the
results are the same:
the printer prints and endless stream of pages with a
few lines of nonsense on each of them, stuff like
%%begin defaults colors magentayellowcyan
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or
<rdf: description
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several lines, and so on.
the support line guys apparently did not have a clue
what i was talking about...
really hope anyone can help...
thx</div>
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