Has anyone solved an Epson printing problem?

After I upgraded to Leopard, I noticed that my printing on my Epson Stylus Photo R1800 was poor in quality to say the least. I tried all of the usual troubleshooting techniques and then emailed Epson. They directed me to a new driver, and they also said that I had to "reset" my old printer driver. I followed directions (even though their directions weren't exactly correct), and I managed to print about five decent prints, but now my printer is back to its old crappy printing, with incorrect color, banding, and no menu in the print dialog box where I can save my choice of papers & resolutions, etc. I have tried to email Espon three more times, but they are not responding to me.
Can anyone advise?
Thanks.

I am using two Macs -- an Imac Power PC, and a MacBook Pro (intel). Leopard has screwed up printing on both. I just went to the Epson website, and while I find a new release driver, it is labelled "Printer Driver v3.0aAs" and it says it was posted on 12/6/06!!! I have found no reference to the 6.12 driver. Also, even this supposedly new driver (Printer Driver v3.0aAs) says iot if for Intel macs, and says nothing about Power PC Macs.
Relatedly, I am interested in exactly what you are experiencing with the 1800. In my case, the Power PC IMac prints are completely wrong re color. No relationship between the screen and the print. With the MacBook Pro, I am getting an error message that the "media is not loaded properly" even though the IMac is communicating fine with the printer and there is no error message.
Help!!!

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