Mac Printing to a windows server

Hi folks,
I have a lab of iMacs that need to print to an Epson SP4880 through a Windows print server (running a printing accounting system).
I now have it working using CUPS+Gutenprint, but this does provide any profiles to allow print management via Photoshop CS3.I have set up this printer as an LPD device and it works like a charm. I thought If I installed the latest Epson driiver, and set it up likewise I could then use all the nice profiles provided by this driver. All attempts at printing with this driver have ended with errors. I have also tried to print to the server as a windows share (smb:printserver\queuename) but this also fails with the epson driver. Needless to say their documentation only covers direct connection via USB or network. I also did not find anything in  the Adobe documentation on color management that covered this convoluted way of printing. Does anyone have this working?

By default the Windows Server 2008 will not have the Line Printer Daemon Service installed and running. With the Server 2008 configured with the Print Services role you need to select the TCP/IP Print Server (LPDSVC) service which allows computers that are using the Line Printer Remote (LPR) service to print to shared printers on this server. The Select Role Services wizard also creates an inbound TCP exception on port 515 for LPD in the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
With this enabled you should then be able to use the LPD queue you created on the Mac's to print to the Windows shared queue. Note that the Queue Name on the Mac will be the name of the share used on Windows. A good tip is to keep the share name short and without spaces.
Note that when you type the IP followed by \HP4015, you are connecting via RPC/SMB. For Windows this is known as Point & Print and while the Mac can connect to this same queue, you cannot use the same procedure. Instead you can use the Windows icon within the Add Printer browser to browse the workgroup then the computer name. When selected you often have to enter user credentials saved on Windows to then see the printer share. When the queue creation is completed you then can print but often have to authenticate every time you print. This is why LPD is preferred. The other thing is that with SMB connections, you often cannot use the vendors driver for consumer products. But if this HP is a LaserJet that supports PostScript then there won't be the same limitation.
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