Epson rx680 "pauses" when printing

Brand new install; cd then updates from website. Finds the printer, but every time I try to print anything the printer pauses. A window showing ink level appears, then goes away and the printer pauses.
I ran disk utility and a gazillion epson updates went flashing by, but still no go. Ideas?

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NorNAZ wrote:
2) When the pause occurs, and if you look at the printer spool, there are two jobs listed. The first says "Setting up printer" or something similar and the second job is the actual document being printed. The pause is caused by the first job which takes 3 minutes. After that is done, the printing of the document occurs pretty quickly. As a workaround, if you click the "x" next to the the first job to delete it, it will move to the next fairly quickly and complete the printing.
This first job - the setting up printer one - is a status check of the printer. It is being sent by the 10.8 printing system to ensure the printer has paper and toner before the print job is sent. The fact that it is sent is most likely due to the Xerox driver, or more appropriately the PPD. To check this is the case, open System Information and select Printers in the left column. In the top right pane, select the Phaser 6360. The bottom right pane will show information about the printer. There will be an entry called Printer Commands. Next to this entry, do you have some text, such as Report Levels?
NorNAZ wrote:
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The Word Print icon in the toolbar (ribbon) is by default set to "Print One Copy". This setting bypasses the printer driver settings and submits the print job to the default printer. So as the printer settings are not called, then there is no status check performed and printing is not delayed.
NorNAZ wrote:
4) When in the printer spool/info folder, clicking on the get printer supplies information button results in an error that the printer is not responding.
The Supply Levels section of Options & Supplies does not work for every brand / model of printer. And even if it was working on 10.6, does not mean it will work on 10.8.
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well, i use the below machines with the current mac os (10.5.6).
i (kind of often) had issues with the network printer epson epl-6200.
of which every issue could be resolved by myself, more or less quickly.
i.e. until the last update (10.5.6).
none of my machines is able to get anything through the network to the printer.
at least they don't get the printer to print a page.
today i spent (almost) the whole day, trying out things to get it fixed this time.
none of it worked.
just to let you know:
i can access the printer through its http-interface.
i can ping it.
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i tried to get "cups" for the epl-6200. i don't want to get into details here, but to drop some names:
foomatic-rip (combined with ghostscript)
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i don't know. :))
required action:
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