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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printing Gray scale picture on LaserWriter?
Keywords: LaserWriter, gray scale, PICT, MS Word
Message-ID: <16756@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 31 May 90 18:45:36 GMT
References: <2452@zipeecs.umich.edu>
Reply-To: suitti@anchovy.UUCP (Stephen Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems Co
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In article <2452@zipeecs.umich.edu> ksuzuki@caen.engin.umich.edu (KATSUYUKI SUZUKI ) writes:
>Hi, everyone. I have question about printing grey scale picture on Laser
>Printer. I have gray scale PICT format picture,(it is density plot) and 
>I pasted that file to MS Word 4.0, and printed to Laser Writer, since
>Laser Printer can print gray scale. It looked fine on the monitor, but
>when it was printed,the picture looked so awful. 

I have Word, and Digital Darkroom.  If you import the PICT in
Digital Darkroom, export it as a halftone'd TIFF, you can read
that in with Word.  Canvas 2.0, 2.1 also have a halftoning
feature, though without anywhere near as much flexability.  You
can cut & paste.  Canvas is also convenient for changing the
resolution of an image.  Say it was 300 dpi (you just halftoned
it), you can tell it that it is now 150 dpi (twice as big).  I
don't know of a word processor that will do halftoning (though I
haven't looked).

Cheapcolor was posted to the net recently (last six months).  It
can also halftone for you.  It will produce a 75 dpi halftone
(rather than 300 dpi as with Canvas or Digital Darkroom).  It is
designed for color printing on an imagewriter, but I used it to
print on my laser printer.  I don't recall if it has export
capability.  I think so.

If you are going to be doing much multi-bit-per-pixel stuff on
your Mac, I'd get Digital Darkroom.

Stephen.
suitti@ima.ima.isc.com