New Epson printer compatibility problem?

Hello!
I'm trying to set up a new printer for my parents, who have the iMac G4 running 10.4.11.
My brother-in-law bought an Epson XP-200 Small-in-One printer. On the Epson support page for drivers for this printer,
I selected Mac OSX 10.4.x, and the available driver was Common Updater v9.0, epson14284.dmg.
I downloaded this driver, installed it, and then Added the printer in Printer Setup Utility.
In Printer Setup Utility, the printer was recognized as: XP-200 Series.
For Print Using, I selected Epson.
A list of models appeared, and the XP-200 was not among them (no XP was listed).
But every model listed had the same thing after the model name: Gimp-Print v5.0.0-beta2
So I selected the first model.
The printer does print, but painfully slowly, with terrible output (pale print, and non-black text is rendered in multiple,
different-colored, vertically shifted lines).
It looks like the Utility function (for checking ink, e.g.) isn't available.
Is this an issue of an insufficient driver for an "old" OSX?
Or have I not done the setup right?
Is there new printer that works easily and well with 10.4.11?
Thanks!

HI, sad as it is since Epson Printers really use the same language since Atari days, (escP), no idea who to blame other than Apple changing requirements without real need, but...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20029794#20029794
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19372846#19372846
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18745736#18745736

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