Epson driver 8.17 test strip frustration

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone else had comea across tis little foible of the Epson v8.17 driver for Snow Leopard.
I like to print test strips or small images side by side on a sheet of A4 paper for comparison. Previously when using Leopard and the old driver I could do this with my 1290S no problem. If the image was a couple of inches square and in the centre of the page the printer would feed the paper to the start of the print, print it, then eject the paper, ignoring the blank area.
Now, with the new driver and Snow Leopard the 1290S thinks it has to print the whole page. It will "print" nothing (head moving back and forth but no ink) all the way to the image, print that, then print nothing again for the remainder of the page.
This is frustrating and time consuming.
I had a web-chat with Epson - No help. Sent a message to Epson Support. They said install Rosetta. The printer was working without Rosetta and installing it made no difference.
Before anyone says it - I know the printer is old, but it was working perfectly well before this new driver.
Thanks.

Oops, sorry about the spelling. Frustration can do that to you.

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