Epson 740 won't print, 1280 prints fine

I'm running a 15" 1.25 ghz G4 powerbook, OS 10.4.3:
I've reinstalled the drivers, rebooted, I've deleted the printer from the list and added it back in, I've tried the gimp print driver, I repaired disk permissions (there were a lot in need of help)...but nothing helps. I can send a file to print but jobs simply stop. I can use the printer utility to clean heads and check heads on the 740, I can also print to an Epson 1280. I've also printed successfully to the 740 from an iMac G5 and even dragged its Epson driver over to the G4.
I think the issue is in the G4 but I'm not sure where. Any pointers?
(this happened the same time as apple mail completely crashed warranting a com.apple.mail.plist removal and as my menu bar reorganizing itself).

thanks DKR.
the 740 downloads at Epson i was able to find when I checked prior to starting this thread were for OS 10.2 and under. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. I made the assumption that Epson simply started bundling anything newer in subsequent iterations of OSX which led me to re-install drivers only from the OSX DVD I have....and that didn't work.
I'm at a loss on this...
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