Illustrator CS5 with Epson R1900 = aliasing lines

Hi all,
I've been searching for answers as to why my Epson R1900 is printing with aliased lines when printing from Illustrator (CS5), without much luck. I've read in another forum that it is perhaps a driver issue but have not found confirmation from other sources. We haven't used the printer in a few months and this is the first time it is happening. I'm fairly knowledgable about color mangement and using the correct profiles and have tried various combinations with no luck.
I've downloaded and installed the latest Combo Update from Epson's website and have gone through the deletion and reinstall process about three times. The colors are accurate and the Print Utility works well (showing ink levels etc), but the quality of the line work is obviously aliased. The hitch is that if I convert the files to PDF, then print from Acrobat Reader, the line quality is perfect. I really don't want to (nor feel I should have to), convert my files to PDFs to print them (because of the workflow, it becomes a little harder to manage the color correctly and transparencies get tricky).
Can anyone please provide some insight and/or help with this?
FYI:
Color space: sRGB
Set to let Illustrator handle color.
Media Profile: Epson Ultra Prem Presenation Matte
Color result: Very acceptable (maybe 95% accurate)
Thanks for your time and help!
Cheers,
Michael

Can you manually tweak the ink and line bleed setting in the printer driver? Sounds like that just needs to be set a little higher for the printer to produce additional droplets for the antialiasing...
Mylenium

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