[PLUG] Epson ActionLaser 1000 Printer Driver Question

[Richard C. Steffens]

I'm swapping my network printer for my wife's parallel port printer, 
since she has a new machine with no parallel ports. My problem is one of 
almost enough information plus too much information.

I plugged the Epson ActionLaser 1000 into the parallel port on my Ubuntu 
10.04 machine and clicked on System > Administration > Printing. (I'm 
pretty sure this is CUPS, but couldn't swear to it.) Up pops a little 
window named "Printing - localhost" with an icon for my network printer. 
I clicked on Server > New > Printer. The New Printer window opened with 
LPT #1 selected. I clicked on Forward. It searched for drivers and 
changed the window to say Choose Driver. Options are (*) Select printer 
from database, ( ) Provid PPD file, and ( ) Search for a printer driver 
to download.

Since the first option was marked, I clicked on Forward. The first time 
I did this I got the list of manufacturers, and picked Epson. It 
automagically decided I had an Epson ActionLaser 1100, and gave me three 
drivers, Foomatic something, CUPS Guetenberg light (or something like 
that), and CUPS Gutenberg (something else). The reason I'm vague on 
those things is that I stepped through the process again to copy down 
things into this e-mail as I went. Unfortunately, this time, instead of 
getting the manufacturer's list, I get a list of drivers starting with 
ESC/P Dot Matrix Printer, GDI Printer, IBM-Compatible Dot Matrix 
Printer, OAKT Printer, PCL3 Printer, PCL4 LF Printer, PCL4 Printer ... 
and ending with ZjStream Printer.

The first time through, I was thinking that maybe the 1000 and the 1100 
aren't that far apart, and I should just pick one of the three options. 
Since I think I'm using CUPS, it should be one of those, but would I 
want the light, or the other one?

I tried Googling for a Linux driver for the ActionLaser 1000, but only 
get things for the 1100. There's lots of possibilities. There's the 
ljet3 driver, the gimp-print driver, the gutenprint driver, and the omni 
driver.

Any idea how to simplify my thought process on this so I can pick the 
right driver?

TIA.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens