OSX Tiger on OSX Leopard using Parallels?

Hello everyone, I hope this question/issue has not been posted before as I have been unsuccessful in finding an answer to my dilemma as yet so here goes. I have a new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, 2.4gig running Leopard 4.5.1. I just bought a new Epson Large format Printer, Epson Stylus Pro 7800. The MBP did not see the printer driver and so I downloaded and installed the latest driver from Epson that does work with the printer. The driver does not support all of the functionality the printer is capable of however (thanks for nothing Epson). So here is my question; Is there a way to install OSX Tiger using Parallels. I am hoping that I could do all of my pre-print editing in Leopard and then when it is time to print, switch to Tiger and use the Epson print driver (written for Tiger) there, to access all of the printer's functionality.
Can Tiger be loaded on my new MacBook Pro using Parallels?
Thank you in advance for any assistance that you can provide.
Best wishes

Try to install Bonjour and it will help you see your printer in Parallels, OR install a generic printer driver for an epson XXXX similar to yours. Hope that helps a little bit. You DON'T want to run two MacOSs since this would screw up your hard drive installation.
Another way is to install a Bootcamp version of Windows, create your stuff on the mac and then boot to windows, print using their driver, I have had to do that until the Samsung people came up with a version of the driver within Leopard!! I TOLD Leopard to install the Samsung printer drivers, I also saw that there were drivers for epson printers too!!

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