Non-native printer driver would not load

Hi,
I have a PowerPC G4 and two printers, an Epson Photo R220 and an Epson C60. The OS is 10.4.8. Several days ago I reset my printing (using the printer setup utility) and then tried to reload the Epson drivers. The drivers from Epson would not load. The only drivers that do load are the ones that apparently come with the OS and are labeled with ' ... Gimp-print v5.0.0-beta2'. These drivers do not produce the same quality of printing as the Epson drivers I had before.
Downloading the most recent driver from Epson did not help, neither did any order of resetting the printer utility, re-installing, and rebooting the computer.
The gang at the local Apple Store could not solve the problem either!
Any suggestions?

Thanks for your reply.
What I came to was that I needed to uninstall the direct usb driver set up I had made for my printer and then start from scratch. While I was doing this (which turned out to be very difficult) with an HP tech he mentioned an HP wireless printer that he thought would work much better for what I wanted.
So I exchanged the HP officejet Pro 5400 for a DeskJet 6980 and this is a great solution, because I don't even have to connect through the Airport with a USB cable. It's all wireless and the quality of the printer is good and price is reasonable. Set up was difficult but HP has good tech support even for mac and they helped me out.
Now if any in my office wants to add this printer it's available as a bonjour printer and they don't even have to load to drivers.

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