Printer settings on a shared printer

I'm trying to print from my iMac (10.6) on a shared printer (Epson RX420) connected to my Cube (10.4). Everything works fine, except I can't access the printer settings in the print menu. So I can only print in standard quality.
What am I doing wrong?

DLudig wrote:
I'm using the latest Epson drivers on both macs. The settings dialog is available on both macs when the printer is connected directly to them. It's just not available when the printer is connected to the cube as a shared printer and I'm printing from a remote mac via the LAN network.
At the risk of wasting more of your time, I'd like to back up a little.
I can't access the printer settings in the print menu.
Perhaps this is just a language issue, but could you explain what you mean by "the print menu"? When I invoke File -> Print for my Epson printer that is shared over the network, I see a somewhat large dialog box with fields starting with "Printer", "Presets", "Copies", etc. and then eventually one with the name of the application. If I click on the blue triangle to the right of the "Printer" item, the dialog box collapses to just "Printer" and "Presets". Do you see anything like that?
One other odd thought: Assuming it's compatible, do you have the same printer driver installed on all your Macs?

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