I keep getting a "waiting for printer to become available when trying to print on my Epson Photo Stylus 2400. It used to work.

I'm trying to print a .psd image from Photoshop CS5 using my Epson Photo Stylus 2400 printer. Yesterday, I downloaded a suggested upgrade and it hasn't worked since then. I used Time Machine and replaced the Epson utility with the old one. I then get a message:
Waiting for printer to become available...
and nothing happens. I need to be able to print!
I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Try Reset Printing System feature and then install the printer using Apples instructions from Mac Basics: Printing in OS X

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