Printing on an old HP LaserJet 5p

Hello: I am having problems using thois printer. I am running the latest Tiger OS on an old Pismo Firewire PowerBook. I connected a USB to serial adapter, selected the 5p as a new printer; then my computer said it was installing the required drivers to communicate with the 5p.
I next tried to print from both Acrobat and MS Word. The computer spit out several pages--a combination of blank sheets and garbled text. The text says things like:
dup33 /zero put
dup 34 /four put
There are many lines of this.
Another sheet says:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%RBINumCopies: 1
%%Pages: (atend)
And so on....
This printer worked back when I ran OS 9, but back them, the adapter came with driver software on a disc. I assume that disc won't work on OS Tiger (?).
So, I'm guessing that the solution to this is simple (I hope).
Please let me know if you know what I should do next.
Many thanks!

Hi Adam
Instead of using the USB to serial adaptor which is fine on OS 9, for Mac OS X you need a parallel to USB adaptor cable.
I have connected a HP LaserJet 4L to Mac OS X 10.3.9 using a Keyspan parallel to USB adaptor cable. Whilst your printer is a different model they are both LaserJets and use Localtalk / parallel for OS X. You will require the same hardware setup. It is more than a connector, the cable it has a small converter card in it.
Keyspan parallel USB printer adaptor
With that cable, you would then install the printer again, but this time it will give you the proper output.
regards roam

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