New g4 hard drive, old Epson printer

My upgraded iBook G4 OSX 10.5.8 recently had a new hard drive installed. All good till I tried to run a couple print jobs on an Epson Stylus C88. At first, the jobs never made it to the print queue. So I downloaded and installed the latest and greatest drivers. And now, When I print a test page, blank sheets just keep feeding through the printer. However when I run the self test on the printer as a stand-alone, it's fine.
Any suggestions out there? Thanks!

Hello Paul,
Looking at the Epson web site, there is the 3.0 driver for Intel Mac's and the 2.5 driver. Without checking the 3.0 driver it should be in a Universal Binary file format, meaning it can be installed on Power PC and Intel Mac's. But if you wanted to be sure you could install the v2.5 driver on the iBook, although it seems odd that they state that 10.4.11 is the maximum OS supported.
With the problem you are now getting I would suggest you reset your printing system and trash the contents of the HD > Library > Printers > Epson folder. Then run the v2.5 driver installer again and add the printer.
With regards to iPad printing, have a look at this list of iOS supported printers. These printers allow you to print directly to them from the iPad via wireless.

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