Printing with SuSE 9.2

Hi All Bit of a novice but here goes. Printing from my HP 2100 did not work after first installation on my newly built machine. Found that the BIOS has set the parallel port to std port rather than enhanced. Now the printer is recognised but does not print properly. A web page, for example, when printed will set out the page OK, will print the image OK but does not print the text properly. The text looks a little like bar codes - vertical lines only. At other places is looks like the letters overlap, as if the wrong font is used. Any ideas please will be grateful Phillip