Epson Stylus Photo R280 Stopped Working After Mac OS X Update

I have an Epson Stylus Photo R280 hooked up to my iMac running Snow Leopard. Yes, I upgraded my drivers months ago to the Epson supplied 10.6x drivers. The other day, Software Update showed an 'Epson Printer Drivers Update' and I installed accordingly. When I try and print now, I get the following error:
Error: /Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/Filter/rastertoescpII.app/Con
and the job doesn't print. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing the Epson Snow Leopard drivers, but to no avail. Is there a way to uninstall an Apple update? It seems their update has killed my printer and I can't fix it. Any help is greatly appreciated!

This was very helpful.
I have an Epson Photo Stylus Photo R260 and, after updating the driver through Software Update in Snow Leopard, got the same error message when I tried to print: "rastertoescpII fail."
I did as you explained: deleted the printer from system preferences > print & fax; control-clicked to bring up the contextual message and reset my printing system; then downloaded (again) the combo update to the print driver from Epson (the driver designed for Macs running both Snow Leopard and Leopard).
Everything's working just fine again.

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