Printing with an Epson 1400 through Time Capsule

I just got done setting up my new iMac and Time Capsule at my house and ran into a roadblock when trying to print. I have searched and searched these forums and all over the rest of the internet looking for an answer before I asked my question, but found nothing.
I am fairly computer savvy and followed the directions from Apple, Epson and the advice from other people having related problems all with to no avail.
What is going on is I can see the printer and supposedly send files to it to print, but it never actually prints anything. The Epson print monitor show that the job was sent successfully, but there is never a nice little print out in the tray when I go to retrieve my print. The printer doesn't even look like anything was tried to be sent to it. I am trying to do all of this through WiFi.
I have another computer that was on Panther and plugged in directly to the Time Capsule (not Wifi) that was printing fine. I could actually print from my iMac to the printer when the other printer was shared through the Panther computer, but I could never get the iMac with Leopard on it to print directly to the printer.
I tried updating the other computer to Leopard and as soon as I did, it couldn't print either.
I have no idea where to go now other than get a new printer or ask you guys for help, so I figured I come to you guys first.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks
Jamie

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