Printing from 10.8 to a printer shared from 10.4.11

Hi,
I have a G3 iMac running 10.4.11 that has an Epson WorkForce 1100 connected to it. My 10.8 machine can see the printer, I can install it but printing fails. I get "looking for printer" and "communication error." I think the problem might be driver related. The 10.4 machine lists it's printer driver as v.6.56, while the 10.8 machine has v.9.
I can't figure out how to get 10.8 to use the older driver. I can install the older driver, but when I try to add the printer, I can't select anything but the new driver. How can I force 10.8 to use the driver I downloaded from Epson (it's a .dmg file)?
I can unstall generic drivers on the 10.8 (generic post script I think) and they work, but not well. That test at least verivied that communication and sharing are working.
Thanks,
John

Hope this helps (ignore the windows stuff - works with Mac clients too):
HOWTO Add a raw printer queue in OS X 10.4
(by greg sahli, May 15, 2006)
What is a raw Queue for? You want to share a non-postscript printer from an OS X Mac, but you want the regular driver to work on Windows (client) (instead of using a postscript driver on Windows).
1. Edit the files /etc/cups/mime.convs and /etc/cups/mime.types so that the line in each that starts with:
#application/octet-stream
has the beginning "#" removed (which means you have uncommented it).
I would use the freeware Text Wrangler and its menu item File>Open Hidden to edit these files.
2. Make sure the printer is on and connected by USB.
Go to Printer Setup Utility. Click Add, then note how the printer is identified next to the comm protocol, USB. In my case it is "Stylus Photo R200." Cancel and close Printer Setup.
Under the Apple menu, open About this Mac and click More Info to open System Profiler. Click on Hardware>USB. Under USB BUS, click on USB Printer. We will need two pieces of info from this, so keep it open in the background.
3. Open a web browser (Safari, Firefox, etc). Enter this URL, which is the local admin web server for CUPS on your computer:
http://localhost:631/
Click Do Administration Tasks. When it asks for authentication enter either your regular admin user/password, or, root and root's password. (Different computers are set up differently for this) Read more:
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L191
4. Click Add Printer. Enter a helpful name, like R200_RAW (for my Epson R200). If you like, enter an "abbreviated" location and description. Click Continue. Select USB Printer, not the specific model. Continue. Now we need the info from System Profiler. Make the URI like this:
usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R200?serial=MO7P104xxxxxxxx40
components of the above:
usb:// -- using the CUPS built-in USB backend driver
EPSON -- exactly as spelled (all-caps in my case) in System Profiler
Stylus%20Photo%20R200 -- as the name shows up in Printer Setup, but spaces are replaced with %20 (ascii substitute for space)
?serial=MO7P104xxxxxxxxx40 -- get the serial number from System Profiler.
5. Click Continue. Select Raw. Continue. Select Raw Queue (en). Continue. Done. Now try printing from the Windows (client) computer.

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