G4 Stopped Printing With Epson, G4 & printers Options

[Bloot]

We have a G4 with OSX connected to an Epson CX6200.
Of recent the G4 shows a blank panel and doesn't SEE the Epson in it's print menus - and yet if we tell the G4 to scan something, the 6200 responds, and then will print the scanned item.
Using the printer utility, the G4 sees the printer, but still won't transfer that over to the ordinary print menus.
Two options we thought might influence it were that one of the ink carts needs replacing (but that shouldn't stop the [process??), and also that we have an unpowered USB2 splitter which shares the available USB between the printer and the keyboard/mouse combo (it worked when originally set up).
Any ideas?
TIA Fred

[lepetitmartien]

"fine" (uh) On my side, as my old Epson is not OS X savvy nor G5 savvy (save with third party tricks costing $$$) I've just bought a Samsung color laser USB and Ethernet the CLP-300N. I've still to make some place for it (and get rid of the 1520).

On my own, I've decided I have had enough of Epson and their drivers (or lack of)…

For you I hope anyway it's not something bad with the mac itself