LR 5 or Epson 3800 printing issue

Not sure if this belongs in this forum or one for the printer, but starting here. Have been printing my images to this printer from LR (to include LR5) for quite some time, and as recently as last week able to print successfully 8X10s using 8X10 templates I had built in LR. Yesterday, tried to print 17X25, and the print came out only with 8X10 printed on. Then went back to the 8X10 that I had successfully printed only a few days before, and the 8X10 print had only 4X6 printed on it. Nothing had changed with my LR print templates, so am greatly confused by this printer behavior.
The only thing that prints correctly are 4X6 prints. They print as normal, fully sized 4X6.
Not sure what to do at this point. Intuitively, think it must be something with the printer, as the templates in LR have not changed. When I initially tried to print the 17X25 sheet paper using the auto feed, had lots of problems with the printer accepting the paper. Had to turn off the paper check option on the printer.
But i subsequently turned that back on, as i recall seeing an error on the printer when trying to print 8X10 with the paper check option off.
Would appreciate comments/recommendations. Thinking --- should I reinstall the printer driver on my Mac, or is there a way to redo the epson settings to "factory" ... sort of reinitialize. Kind of grasping at straws.
Thanks.

I can think of a couple things, though I don’t have an Epson printer so these are more shots in the dark regarding generic printing, not specific to your printer. First, what is it that is occurring when you say the printing “fails”. Does nothing print, or does it print differently than you expect or what does “fail” mean? Maybe someone with an Epson printer will recognize the symptoms and chime in.
You’ve described how when you specify one size of paper the size of the photo comes out smaller. There is one thing that LR doesn’t do properly in my opinion: at least with the HP laser printers I print to, there is no way to change the paper size in LR without the printer driver already showing that paper size as the current paper, and there’s no way to change the paper size in the printer driver without actually printing something—there is only Ok (to print) and Cancel (to forget the change), so if I have been printing to letter-sized paper, and want to print something on legal-sized paper, then LR will have the letter-sized paper settings for margins and such, then I click Printer… and set my printer paper-size to Legal, which is fine, but I cannot get back out of the printer-driver to set Legal for LR’s margins, so instead I have to click Print to print a legal-sized photos using LR’s letter-relative margins, and only then will LR know I am printing to Legal-sized paper, and let me change the margins to be relative to that new size.
About the only way to get around having to waste a sheet of paper and ink every time you switch paper is once you’ve printed something correctly, save a preset for that paper size and printer settings. I’ve had to add two user templates one for legal-sized and one for letter-sized paper for my HP printer driver so I don’t have to waste paper switching back and forth.
Now if you are already using saved presets, perhaps those presets are for a different version of the printer driver that has slightly different settings and this inconsistency is causing things to print wrong for you. My suggestion would be to delete your preferences file, first, and see if that clears things up, and if not, then recreate your presets for the paper sizes you are using. You might also try installing the printer with a different name and using that newer name with LR in case the old one has some inconsistent settings remembered by LR, somewhere.
To delete the preferences file you would want to shut down LR, and then find and delete the preferences file as shown in the following document, where the LR5 preferences file remains the same location as the LR4 preferences file:
http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/preference-file-locations-lightroom-4.html
Otherwise you might try running Lightroom as administrator/root or not running it as administrator/root depending on what you’re not doing, now, and try making a difference user profile and seeing if it works differently, then.

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Sincerely appreciate your help. Running Windows 7 on a Dell XPS420. System has been very stable for years. Before purchasing the Epson r2000, I owned an r1800 which was an excellent printer but after seven years started to exhibit paper feed problems. The r1800 worked with all applications and I was well satisfied with the saturation, contrast, etc. printing mostly 8x10 and 11x17 prints.
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