I've since found a link under the Gimp-Print FAQ that talks about the difficulty of printing to Epson Stylus printers in Free, Net and OpenBSD.
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_FAQ_OS_X.php3#BSD The short of it is that the BSD driver resets the printer losing sync. The fix is to use unlpt0 instead of ulpt0 and it tells how to create the device. However the command mknod unlpt0 c 113 64 root wheel gives usage: mknod... What is the correct command and is there anything else I would need to do after this to get CUPS to recognize the printer at that device? Thanks.
