Panoramic Printing Trouble on Epson 2200

I am trying to print a 8"x45" panoramic print from Photoshop in OS X 10.4.5 from Photoshop CS2 on a 13" roll of matte paper. I have the matte black ink cartridge in and have reinstalled the printer drivers to recognize the different ink.
I have created a custom page size in Photoshop, 12.94x45, and everytime I print the image, it is not centered and starts printing about 16" in from the edge. When it does print, it prints a thin line and goes over several times, then starts printing them image.
I have contacted Epson, and they have not given me any answers that have worked. They suggested I try the gimp print driver, but it has the same results.
I also imported the photo into a 13"x45" InDesign document, it starts to print in a different spot, but it is basically the same result. I tried making a PDF of the photo, and it has the same results. I also tried making the Photoshop document 13" wide, to see if it changed the outcome, no change.
Epson did say that the page setup is part of OS X 10.4, and not part of the printer driver now. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help me resolve this issue?
Heather
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 Power Mac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

After many hours of going back and forth with Epson, I was reading in a Google group something about a limit on printing length. I shrunk the image to 40" and it is printing just fine.

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