Nothing listed in Printing Presets

Hello,
I've been using iPhoto for a while and recently I got my dad hooked on it with his new G5 iMac and Epson R320 Printer. One of my favorite iPhoto features is how simple printing is. All I do is pick my pix and layout, choose "Photo on Photo Paper - Fine" in the Presets section of the print Dialog and let her rip. This has been the case on both of my Epson printers (an old 870 and my new R1800.)
My dad however does not have anything besides "Standard" listed in the "Presets" section of the print dialog. He goes into Advanced and has been getting horrible looking prints from the R320 - a really nice printer! I have tried to fix this by trashing iPhoto's plist, trashing printers, using PSR to reset printing, reinstalling the driver for the R320 from the CD and reinstalling the R320 driver from the Epson web site. Nothing has added anything under the presets heading.
How does one get those choices AUTOMATICALLY listed in the Presets section? I know I can make my own, but I'd like this to be "default simple" for my dad...
Thank you,
David

For my older Epson 870 and my brand new Epson R1800 there are 4 presets listed which take care of the hassle of changing paper type and such, it really makes printing simple. For many HPs there are even more for different types of media, again simple. I contacted both Apple and Epson and both tell me it's the other guy's doing - bottom line, I'm going to create some for my dad. The reason I didn't do that before is b/c for some reason, on his, simply picking paper still didn't yield a good looking print. I thought maybe there was more to it (the "stock" presets) but I've looked over mine and it appears it's just about paper type.

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