Printing via Bonjour stalls printer

I have an Epson CX6600 hanging off of my G4, and I can print from that with no problems.
I have a WinXP SP2 box, Bonjour installed, printer wizard run and my printer recognized and set up with no problems. However when I print, the job does indeed show up on the Epson printer queue on the G4, but the printer goes into "stopped" mode, and any further jobs from either machine just queue.
Hitting the "start" button in the G4 printer utility causes it to think for a few seconds but stay stopped. The only way I can restart it is to delete the PC jobs from the queue, and then hit the start button.
I've tried printing from a bunch of different PC applications - same result every time.
Any ideas anyone?
Ken
G4 Mirrored doors Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Try uninstalling Bonjour for windows, reinstall using the most recent version: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows103.html
Then re-add the printer using the Bonjour Wizard, selecting the generic printer driver that Bonjour recommends.

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Hi Irbrenda I remember you from http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10331377#10331377 not a million years ago!
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