Printer settings hijacked by Windows 8.1

[Thunder Road]

My Windows 8.1 will not allow me the option to print a jpeg as anything but photo settings on my printer. I.E. it will not allow me to select plain paper or economy ink settings & will not even display those options. Any ideas as to a work around?

[patio]

Did you install the drivers for Win 8 ? ?

[Thunder Road]

Yes, all OEM drivers installed, and Epson printer driver updated.

[patio]

How old is this printer ? ?...and what Model is it ?

[Thunder Road]

Epson Workforce 645

[Thunder Road]

Perhaps I should elaborate more. When I first installed the printer, I could click on properties and get the Epson menu which allowed me to choose any paper type or print quality setting I wanted.  But even if I set this menu to plain paper and economy printing, whenever I tried to print a jpeg, Windows shows it's own menu with limited options. This is no good for the work I do. Now that windows has updated the driver with it's own windows version (which I did not authorize), I can no longer even pull up the Epson menu by clicking on properties in devices & printers. It seems Windows knows better than I what I wish to do with my printer.

[Thunder Road]

I uninstalled the printer & reinstalled it, hoping to get the Epson driver installed again. Now, the printer menu gives me the plain paper option, but no control over quality of the printing & still no access to saturation and manual color control. I don't understand why the developers of this software think that they can control our devices better than we can.

[Thunder Road]

Now my computer has evidently updated again, totally removed the driver for my printer & installed a copy of the driver for the fax. I'm going to downgrade to Windows 7. Unbelievable.