Wireless printing from a PowerBook G4 through a router to an hp printer

I'm able to hook the usb cable directly to the printer from the powerbook and it prints great.
My hubby and I ran through the mac book and was able to to connect the mac to the router and then at some point it printed, but it was computer language... what could we be missing?
Oh (since this was a while back after giving up) I remember when selecting the printer model we were not given the choice to load a driver...so I'm thinking there lays the problem... however... we went to the website to even download the driver (since this mac should already have the driver preloaded from what I remember reading).... i have no idea if a CD came with it, it we found one and tried there or what... it's been that long since we tried... but then again, I had lunch yesterday and I can't remember what I ate?
Anyone want to try and help? There's a reason why I've got my user name as conehead. wink
chelle
I would like to try this again. Thanks for anything you can give. I've gone through several pages of posts and didn't see anything that could help so now I'm posting my much needed help.

Network printing/Windows printing only works with a driver that was meant for network printing. To use the OS X built-in CUPS network choices, you need a CUPS driver. For postscript printers, this is not an issue, because postscript is the native output of OS X, and can easily be routed to the various choices in Printer Setup.
Non-postscript printers are Very Different. Except for Brother, no manufacturer has provided CUPS drivers. Instead, what you get are Carbon-type, OS9 legacy drivers, that have the comm protocol written into the driver (mostly USB). They can only print via local connection.
**Exception - when printing via an Airport/Bonjour enabled print server (Airport Express/Extreme), where the software does a port redirection, USB output from the Mac gets routed to the USB port on Airport Express/Extreme.
Short version - the driver provided by HP doesn't do network/windows printing.
Install hpijs + ESP ghostscript from:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
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