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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
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Subject: Re: New HP Inkjet Mac Color Printer?
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Date: 9 Apr 90 15:35:26 GMT
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In article <8122@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> neil@odin.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Neil Rhodes) writes (among other things):
>
>The QuickDraw driver will take advantage of 32-Bit QuickDraw if available
>(producing 16.7 million colors via dithering).  If 32-bit QuickDraw is not
>available, it will still print up to 256 colors per page.
>

The HP engineers showing the machine remarked that in the absence of
32-bit QuickDraw, the machine would only output 8 colors (i.e., old Color
QuickDraw, which programs like Excel use).  Anyone from HP out there who
can confirm one way or the other?

John Heckendorn
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