Windows Printing w/ HP PSC 2175, prints, but settings are weird?

I have an hp psc 2175 printer connected to a PC computer running on XP on my wireless/wired network. (I have a linksys wireless-g router; i connect wirelessly, and the PC is hooked in through one of the four ports on the back WRT54G). I am trying to set up windows printing so that I can print wirelessly through it. I have already set it up without any problems on three other PC laptops and they all print fine. I had initially had some problems with my mac, but then I downloaded the hpijs and ESP ghostscript from http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/ , however, now that it does print, it is as if it is using three times the ink on each page!! Every page that prints from my computer is as if the words are allin bold. This does not happen from any of the PC laptops, just from my Powerbook. Is there anyway I can change the settings on the remote printer, or what should I do??
Thank You

I have an hp psc 2175 printer connected to a PC
computer running on XP on my wireless/wired network.
oh-oh. Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
(I have a linksys wireless-g router; i connect
wirelessly, and the PC is hooked in through one of
the four ports on the back WRT54G). I am trying to
set up windows printing so that I can print
wirelessly through it. I have already set it up
without any problems on three other PC laptops and
they all print fine.
This is because HP's Windows drivers support sharing over the network. (Most of them do, anyway. Some don't. But the printers which can't be shared over the network usually have some kind of a warning in the fine print on the box or on the online blurb.)
I had initially had some
problems with my mac,
This is because HP's Mac drivers do NOT support sharing over the network. (There are exceptions, but most HP inkjets don't do OS X sharing out of the box.) Note that HP does not warn Mac users about this.
but then I downloaded the
hpijs and ESP ghostscript from
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/ ,
however, now that it does print, it is as if it is
using three times the ink on each page!!
That's strange. It's not supposed to do that. There's something set funny in the printer setup.
Every page
that prints from my computer is as if the words are
allin bold. This does not happen from
any of the PC laptops, just from my Powerbook. Is
there anyway I can change the settings on the remote
printer, or what should I do??
The HPIJS drivers use CUPS and GhostScript. That means that you can play with the settings (IF you know what you're doing!) from the CUPS printer page on your Mac. (Open a web browser, type in http://127.0.0.1:631/.) This site may be of some assistence. <http://www.cups.org/> This PDF file may also help. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixpanther/chapter/ch05.pdf>
And then there's this: <http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/osxprint.html>
Note that you'll have to be handy with the command line to use either of the last two.

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