Epson Driver/Printer Probs!

I have a mac mini. I'm using the Epson Stylus Color Printer 740i that I've had for ages (bought and used with my iBook in early 2000).
When I want to print, I have to disconnect (USB) my mini, turn on my iBook, print something, and then reconnect to my mini. Seems like I'm pushing something through (as if the line is clogged and it doesn't/can't print my request) like opening a door or something on the printer with the iBook and once open, I can print with the mini by just re-connecting the USB.
Hummm???
I've written Epson/Apple but they kicked the ball back to Apple/Epson about finding my driver on the install disc/the Espon site, which didn't help.
I'm starting to think that the prob is with the Epson (a great sturdy printer but maybe out of date).
Thanks for the help, advice!
Mini Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Mini Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Mini Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Mini Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I'm a bit confused. It looks like that there's a dedicated TX100 driver. Is the 2500 driver for this printer also?
pacman -Ql gutenprint | grep -i tx100
gutenprint /usr/share/cups/model/C/stp-escp2-tx100.5.2.ppd.g
If this doesn't work, definitely let me know. I have something that we can try, but I want to exhaust the easier stuff first.
--EDIT--
I was having trouble with printing with my Epson printer when coreutils 7.1 got into the repos. Before that it worked perfectly ever since I had it. It turned out that a simple rebuild of libcups fixed the problem. I grabbed the PKGBUILD from ABS and rebuilt with no changes to the PKGBUILD. After installation printing worked again. I don't remember if I had to restart the CUPS daemon again, but that's a simple step anyway.

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