"rastertoescpii failed" workaround

Question

Have been using a epson workforce 630 for about 9 months, attached via ethernet without problems.  Suddenly last week, I started getting
printer-state-message="/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/Filter/rastertoesc pII.app/Contents/MacOS/rastertoescpII failed"
any time I tried to print.  I could manage the printer, I could scan from the printer, and I could fax, but I could not print with one exception:  the test print function of the epson driver worked.  The only way I could print to this printer was to directly attach it via a USB port.
After working with both apple tech support, and epson tech support...  and after deleting library files associated with epson, and reinstalling the epson drivers many times, both from the epson support web site, and from the apple update site, to no avail, I decided to try a third party driver which solved my problem.
I downloaded and installed the gutenprint-5.2.8-pre1 package from the following web site: 
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php
and then modified my printer definition to use that driver, which solved my printing problem. 
After downloading and installing the gutenprint drivers, go to System Preferences, Print and Scan, select your printer, select Options & Supplies, then select Driver, and then select the appropriate gutenprint driver for your printer in the Print Using dialog box.  In my case it was the "Epson Workforce 630 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.8-pre1" driver.
Still do not know exactly what changed on my system to cause the problem, but the problem showed up shortly after installing the Mac OS X 10.7.4 Supplemental Update 1.0.

Answer 1

The file you reference, Jack, is no longer on that server. Could you ftp it to me?  I will give you the FTP details if you are willing to send it up to me. I still hope you have it. The files jump from really old stuff to 5.2.9 now.
I tried 5.2.9 but all it did was print out blank paper forever until I cancelled the print in the mac queue and the windows queue. It doesn't matter where I attempted to print from, the result was the same - shooting out blank pages to my printer on my print server (I have a router).
I have an Epson Stylus Photo R300 - they have drivers but they don't work. I think they screwed up stuff in 5.2.9 and took theh good stuff off the download site.
By the way, the reason the printer stopped working was because of an apple update for printers. My computer worked fine (printing) since I bought it last December. I got notification there were updates and one of them was a printer update. I applied both updates and that's when the printer stopped working. Some ding dong or a group of ding dongs at apple screwed up printing.. They should be terminated for such sloppy coding. Apple is getting worse and worse with their software. No way will I update to mountain lion. They have hired a lot of Indians to do the coding now for the bottom line, I worked for 20 years on mainframes and had nothing but trouble with vendors represented by Indians. Keep them out of our software. They are going to ruin very important programs needed by people and the goverenment if they are not cut off from writing our code to save money. Indians are dangereous (Indians = people from India)