Printer prints only crap

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
%%viewing orientation: 1001
%%end defaults
or
<rdf: description
rdf:about=´uuid:933d6a34-17c4-11db-869a, repeated for
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>
Depending on what you are printing and what application is being used, will create this garbage text. Here is a URL which explains the ASCII / Binary situation.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&obje ctID=c00028613&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=412144
Uninstall your preferences in your User account's Library that start with com.apple.print. Then remove only the gz file for the printer in the HD/Library/Printers/PPD/contents/resources/en.lproj/HP LaserJet 4250.gz. Empty the trash. Run a repair permissions,from the Disk Utility.
Empty trash and restart the Mac.
Install the latest Binary PPD from the HP web site.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us &prodNameId=412149&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=412144&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEn vOID=219
Add it into the Printer List (IP Printer if you like...or use Bonjour if you do not care if the address is static).
Use the garbage text doc to ensure the settings are set if applicable.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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