Epson wf-2540 on air / OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)

Hello, I have a macbook air with OS X 10.9.5 (13F34). I updated the operating system once or twice recently.Since then, my Epson WF-2540 printer stopped working, in two phases. I have downloaded and installed what I thought were the correct driver updates from the Epson web site.
Here's what's happened:
- the wireless connectivity actually never worked. Fine, I can live without that. But everything else - scanning and printing - always worked.
- after one Mac OS update and reinstall, the scanner stopped working.
- now, after another Mac OS update, the printer doesn't work as well. I can print a test page from the driver install wizard, but if I try to print anything, such as a simple word or google doc, it spits out a sort of smeared, every-fifth line mess.
I'm not even sure who would be responsible for helping me with this. Thanks!

Thanks.
It turned out that I ahd somehow lost the App Store application on my Mavericks.
Brought on Yosemite and after one or two failed downloads and help from an Apple tech - I finally got both the App store app and the Kindle for Mac App loaded.
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