Epson Stylus CX5400 printing rubbish over the network!!!

Hi! I am visiting my mom and dad for the holidays and they have an all-in-one Epson Stylus CX 5400 connected to their WinXP computer. Bonjour installed as well.
I have tried a few times to print some photos from iPhoto. I also tried printing an email from Apple's Mail. Everytime all I got was... nonsense basically. This kind of printout with unreadable characters.
I thought the lack of drivers for such a device installed in my PB should make no difference but anyway I tried installing them. I was right, the result was the same.
File sharing takes place without problem. As far as I know the drivers are up to date on both computers. If I connect the CX5400 directly to a PB's USB port it works great, but no otherwise.
Any thoughts?
Merry Christmas and happy 2006.
George...

Neither the PC nor the printer know what to do with the PostScript your Mac is sending. When the printer is attached directly to the Mac you use the printer's USB driver which speaks the printer's language, but when you send it over the network to the PC, you are using PostScript printing which the PC can't raster, and the printer doesn't understand. I don't think there is a solution here. I doubt there is a PostScript driver for that printer. You could install GhostScript on the PC, but that is very complicated and probably not worth it.

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