Here is a "help" for whoever. Epson Stylus Color 740 works with Ubuntu 8.10 My setup is a bit under-powered,but it works a bit slow. My proc. is a 700Mhz Coppermine with 378Mb Ram.
Also the printer works with gOS3, and Mint 5.0 XFCE Elysa
Hope this helps.
kato40