Printer options not available to networked computers

Question

Hello. Here at the office we have a network with a mix or PCs and Macs. We have an Epson Stylus Photo 1280 printer and an Epson Stylus C63. They are connected to my iMac running Mac OS X 10.4.10 and shared with the other Macs. I can access all the printer features, including "Print Settings" where you choose the print quality and the option to print only using black ink. All the other computers can't access this Print Settings, the option is simply not available for them in the print menu. So everyone has to print in color, and they can't choose better quality printing.
I tried connecting the printer to another Mac, and the same thing happened. The computer with the printer connected directly via USB is able to choose the different print settings but the ones connected via network cannot.
Is there anything I should check in the Sharing preferences, should I reinstall drivers in the networked Macs, or do anything special?
Thank you.
Hugo

Answer 1

To get the same settings appearing on the client Mac's that appear on the Mac sharing the printer, the same version of driver needs to be installed on all Mac's.
Usually the sharing of an Intel (Universal Binary) driver to a PPC Mac wouldn't be a problem, as the driver has been written to run on both platforms. However, I believe from information provided by Matt Broughton previously, that the Epson UB drivers only work for Intels.
I believe your comment about using Rosetta may be a workaround, but I don't know how you can force the Intel to share the driver using it. I don't think that setting the Printer Setup Utility to open using Rosetta will do it, as it is the Print Dialog Extensions (PDEs) that make the options appear, but it may be worth trying...