Thank you for taking the time to communicate these points. My problem, which carries over to more than one system and more than one Epson LF printer, is probably the way in which I am approaching the Epson driver settings. Until reading this thread, I did not understand that driver settings other than "Default" were disallowed. I have always saved driver settings a "Save Current Settings as Preset", named the preset descriptively, and expected that Preset's setting to stick to the LR template. It does not stick, and I'll argue that it should.
The Lyons tutorial, while good, does not encompass current Epson driver layout, at least in discussing the importance of the Default driver setting.
I'll bet that working from Default, based upon all the remarks made here, will change my luck. If so, I'm indebted.
John-