Lightroom 2.3 not printing

On a Mac. Using an Epson R2400 printer. Works fine w/Photoshop (CS4). When I go to print an image in Lightroom, it says it's printing; the printer queue shows up with a Lightroom job (briefly), then nothing prints.
Ideas? I haven't changed any printer settings on my computer, and I just printed 4 images from Photoshop 5 minutes ago absolutely fine. But nothing from Lightroom.
I must be doing something stupid.. Or not doing something.
Feel free to cite as "operator error", but please tell me what the error is.
Thanks
dc

Bob makes a good point.   It might be nice for me to explain what I did to resolve my problem. I'll do my best, but the short answer is, I'm not sure why what I did would make a difference. However, here goes.
First, some details about my exact problem:
I created a contact sheet in LR composed of the same photo repeated 15 times (my daughter wanted reprints of a picture).   I'm running Leopard on this G5 PowerPC, dual monitors, loads of free disk space, and 2G memory. Printer is an Epson R2400 connected by USB. I'm using Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl Paper (not that THAT matters), and I specified the printer profile for that printer and that paper in LR. As I said in the original post, I had just printed some other photos from Photoshop CS4 (same printer / paper / profile) a few minutes earlier, so I know that the computer - printer connection was working.
Each time I tried to print from LR, LR would show "rendering" the print job in the upper left of the LR frame, and the print job would briefly (maybe 5 seconds) show up in my printer queue display. Then NOTHING.   I tried printing with LR controlling the colors (even though I know it would look horrible) and got the same result. I tried a different layout (picture packet)...same result. I deleted the printer from Leopard and re-added it while I was in LR. Same result.   I quit LR and restarted LR.   Same result.
Grrrr..
Then, just cause I was bored and frustrated, I started playing with the sliders in the layout for the proof sheet and SLIGHTLY increased the gap between the 15 pictures (layout is 5X3).   Pressed PRINT.
WHAMO.   Picture printed. I swear, that's ALL I did. I haven't had the nerve to change it back for fear it won't print again.
Anyway, not sure this is of any help to anyone, and frankly, I still have a hard time believing that this would make any difference at all. But it did.
Or maybe it's cause I drank a beer. Or cause the sun came out (I live in Seattle).
Good luck.
dc

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