Comment 1 for bug 47085

You should report this to the Epson/Avasys people.

This problem is also addressed on the FSG OpenPrinting Summit which I am organizing:

http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington#How_to_write_a_cross_distro_printer_driver

We will provide a standard DDK to printer manufacturers and driver developers which allow them to make distro-independent driver packages and upload them to the new FSG OpenPrinting database (successor of linuxprinting.org). Then every distro will simply automatically get drivers from there. Should work from Ubuntu 7.10 on, perhaps already from 7.06.