Epson Printers....arg!

Not sure if this is the correct thread...but here goes....

For months a I have had zero success trying to network Epson 4800 printers on a windows 2003 server from a mac client (10.5.6).

I am able to print directly to the printer via IP, but when I send the job to the server nothing happens and I get a communication error.

Epson support would not give me any help ...and stated that Epson drivers do not support any server OS. So i then created a XP pro box to queue jobs and still had the same problem. I NEED to get these up on a server! Are there any alternative drivers that are a close match to the Epson 4800's? Generic drivers will queue to the server, however print quality is sketchy.....

I just can't seem to face the fact that I'm unable to queue Epson printers on a server client network! There must be a way! I Administer a print server with a variety of printers and only epson give me trouble.

anyone out there run into this issue?
thanks for reading!
j