Printing in draft mode from Windows

I locked the com.apple.print.custompresets.plist file so that my printer always use my Draft preset. On Mac OS X, everything is fine but the problem is when I print from my Windows PC (which is in my home network).
To make the printer work on Windows, I followed the steps on this tutorial:
http://www.ifelix.net/tech/3012.html
As the author notes, I used the Apple drivers since my printer isn't post script.
The printer is working from Windows, but since I'm not using the HP driver, I can't set the printer to draft mode.
Any ideas?

Well, you're right, I couldn't get it to work, either (sorry it took so long, I had to wait until I got home to try).
But I can get it to work by setting up a RAW queue on my Mac (which allows me to use the correct model driver on the PC). RAW means the Mac just acts as a print server and passes the input to the output - without filtering/translating.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3296897

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