Epson printer sharing incompatibility between PPC Macs and Intel Macs?

I currently have an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 that is shared on my network so I can print to it anywhere including using Airport. This has worked fine for a long time. Last night I tried to print to it from Photoshop on the MBP and found lots of the options in the printer setup for this specific printer weren't showing up. It was very baffling, so after much trying I finally connected the printer directly to the MBP and the options were back. But other things were very different. Like instead of having different printer selections for bordless printing, there is only one printer selection and now when you select the paper size (8x10 for example) there are submenus on the paper size for borderless or other options.
Certainly better but very different. Looking in the printer directory, the file structure looks different and the version for this printer (which now isn't a driver itself but a plug-in to a main driver) is 3.0 which is much newer than the version in the PPC 10.4.5 or on their website. I don't have other epson printers to check out, but they appear as plug-in files now which they didn't before. This issue may apply to other epson printers, not just the 2200.
So, this is long winded way of saying that yes, the printer works (and works well) but it's not incompatible with the PPC mac version and you can't share the printer without losing functionality. It sure would be nice to be warned about this. I don't see anything from Apple or Epson that would let you know this. Has anyone else seen anything similar to this?

I'm in the same situation --- I have a 2200 hooked up to a PPC desktop Mac, and I share it over Airport with my MBP. I have good and bad news.
Good news: Epson has posted new 2200 printer drives for Intel-based Macs on support.epson.com. Download and try them. Read the instructions --- you'll probably have to do a "Reset Printing System" and restart your MBP before installing the new drivers.
Bad news: while I'm able to print to my 2200 over Airport, I'm unable to access Print Settings to change the media type. Thus, unless I'm printing to plain paper, I still have to use a direct connection from the 2200 to my MBP.
Does anybody have a solution to the Print settings issue?
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   2.16GHz 2GB RAM 256VRAM

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