Trying to install drivers into OS9

Hi,
I have a G5 and cannot start up in OS9. I just purchased an Epson R300 which works great in Tiger, but does not work in OS9.
I was using an Epson Color 880 which worked great in both systems. I called Epson, and they said that to install the drivers, you have to start up in OS9. I explained that I can't. He said, "Too bad. Call Apple." So here I am, trying to figure out how to get the drivers appropriately placed into the shell.
Help!
Victor
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) dual processor. OS 9.2.2

Hi, Victor. I understand your frustration and annoyance, but you have to try to see the matter from Apple's and Epson's perspective.
For Apple, allowing new computers to boot into OS 9 would mean severely curtailing the technological advances they incorporate. Many of those advances aren't and couldn't be supported by OS 9: it just doesn't have the chops to allow them. Picture trying to design a new automobile under the requirement that it must be able to burn wood, and you'll have some idea what Apple would face in trying to design new computers that will run OS 9.
As for Epson, all of its products are being designed principally for current operating systems now, and OS 9 is far from current. If Epson decides to write an OS 9 driver for a printer, count your blessings: it would have been much easier for them to ignore OS 9 altogether. The number of OS 9 users who aren't able to boot their machines into that OS is probably a very small fraction of the total number of OS 9 users — which is itself shrinking all the time, as more Mac users either upgrade to OS X or buy computers that can't boot into it. Epson has accommodated all the OS 9 users who are able to boot OS 9 by offering installers for many of its OS 9 printer drivers. Only the small number of OS 9 users whose new Macs can't boot into OS 9 to run that installer are left out in the cold — and then only if they can't find an OS 9-bootable Mac on which to use the procedure I outlined above.
That you find yourself in that tiny minority is certainly unfortunate, and I sympathize. One consequence may be that if you care enough about using your printer in Classic mode, you'll decide to look in some creative places for an older Mac you could borrow to meet your needs: a public library, a school computer lab, a Mac user group nearby, a thrift store that has old Macs, etc. There's got to be a way for you to get it done, if you want to badly enough. Good luck!

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