Printing problem - printout that become garbage characters

I am having problems printing - not everything and not all of the time.
But to often I will print something and it will start printing garbage characters page after page. - Wastes a lot of clean paper.
It happens with different applications - including web pages, pdf files, Movie magic Screenwriter. No rhyme of reason to it.
I have a Brother hl-6050 printer. The correct driver is correct.
I should also say this does not happen from Windows (either in a virtual window from my MAC or booting directly to windows) ever.
Last but not least - We print thru a little print server made by Trendnet. It has the lastest firmware. Again only a problem on the MAC. I've tried connecting thru the ip as well as the server name.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Paul

I'll see if I can provide some of that -
Model Trendnet: TEW-P1UG, Wireless print server (802.11g). (Server Name:PS-705EF8)
Adding a new printer in the default options - the systems finds the print server and Lists it twice - Once with Appletalk and the other Bonjour.
The local comes up as Local Zone. I select the Driver for this printer: HL-6050DN series CUPS. -- The Queue name defaults to PS-705EF8-U1.
Using Appletalk made no sense
Using IP - Default to LPD. The queue becomes the IP address.
Using LPP or LPD: neither work. Can't even print a test page.
I'm less familiar with these particular variations. More use to Windows printing setup which is a little more straight forward. Go figure.
Thanks
Paul

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