Print server sharing Drivers

I am the apple server admin in my company it is not a post that I have any training for I have generally worked on windows. I am trying to set up my 10.5 server to share a new epson large format printer. I can get the client to see the print que from the server but it does not load up a driver, How do I make the server share the driver?

The imaging model in Mac OS X is fundamentally postscript, both for display and printing.
Many postscript printers can operate satisfactorily with only the generic driver selected at the client. Back-to-back and fancy paper tray selection are about the only things that would be lost. If you choose a raster printer, as most Epson printers are, the driver must be installed at the client for proper rasterization.
Client computers using LPR, AppleTalk, and SMB use only PostScript to transfer jobs to print queues on the server. However, IPP clients format the job data according to the OEM print driver for the destination printer, either PostScript or binary.
When Mac OS X Server receives a PostScript print job, it sends it to the queue of a PostScript printer (networked or directly connected), or it uses the ps2pdf converter to produce a PDF file for output to an inkjet printer.
-- from Mac OS X Server Print Service Administration for 10.5 and later

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