Epson driver foul-up

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I just bought an Epson cheapo - c43ux - for my eMac running 10.3.2. My son was anxious to set it up and followed the directions that came with the printer, installing the driver from the cd. (he's not the admin, but he knows my password :-{ )

After the install, apps just quit as soon as I select the printer. I tossed the printer and added a new one, with the same results. I added another with different specs and it works with word and textedit and pdfs and a few more, but safari and firefox quit as soon as i try to print.

I hooked up the iBook (also 10.3.2) and it works fine with all apps...

So the question: how do I remove whatever the Epson package put on the eMac and get it back to it's Panther power state?
 
I went through trying to remove the Epson C84 printer driver last week after the keyboard kept "getting lost" and it wasn't easy. There is no uninstaller, no installer logs, and zero help on the Epson web site. The only thing I could find to uninstall was a plug in for the printer model in the /Library/Printers/Epson folder. However, that seemed to do the trick.

To use the printer I downloaded the latest drivers from GIMP-Print and using it. GIMP-Print is included in Panther but the most up to date drivers are, of course, on the Source Forge web site. If you have not installed or used GIMP-Print drivers before be sure and read the installation instructions on their web site. GIMP-Print drivers often have more and better feature implementation that the OEM drivers. The only thing that does not work on my C84 is the Epson Printer Utility. A minor annoyance at best.
 
The gimp drivers look good, thanks, but the c43 plugin does not seem to be the one we installed last night (created and modified in January 2003).

You're right about the Epson website... useless. Their latest driver is for 10.1.5
 
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