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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GIF (VGA) -> HP PaintJet color printer
Keywords: Does anyone know ?
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Date: 18 Jul 89 18:35:46 GMT
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werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:


<	Does anyone know of a program that can take GIF files in MCGA
<format (320x200x256) or higher resolution and send them directly to the
<HP PaintJet color printer.  True, a screen dump is a pseudo-solution,
<but as it turns out in our installation the PaintJet is attached to
<a computer with only EGA, and the Screen-print driver alters the
<colors.  
<	I know of a GIF -> Epson program (PMG.COM).  If that exists, then
<I'm sure its likely that a GIF -> PaintJet must exist. Anybody seen one?

There's on available on the GIF support forum on Compuserve. It works
well and C source is available. The bad news is that it takes 20-30
*minutes* to generate the ouput from a 320x200x256 GIF!!
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