Printing through a shared Epson R200

Hi,
I have just bought my first Mac, a macbook and i'm having a few problems with it printing on my Epson R200. The R200 is shared through one of my XP machines, the macbook can recognise it and print through it, but any advanced features such as print quality, borderless, CD Printing etc are not showing up.
When I added the printer, I selected the R200 model and it's using the GIMP drivers?
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Dan

You have encountered a difference between Windows and OS X. On OS X, there are two printer driver APIs (application programming interface = all the programming tools and info needed for programming) that can be used for drivers - the Carbon one (which is also used by Cocoa if you wanted to use Cocoa for a driver) and the CUPS one (CUPS is the open source spool control system Apple uses in OS X). Brother is the only manufacturer so far to write CUPS drivers for its non-postscript printers. Everyone else uses Carbon, and with Carbon the manufacturer gets to insert exactly which comm protocol will/can be used by the driver.
Short version - the Epson-provided driver for the R200 is only capable of direct USB connection. CUPS drivers can use any comm protocol available to the CUPS system (including Windows Printing). That's why you're using the Gimp-Print (CUPS) driver.

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