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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: TIFF specification
Summary: TIFF print
Keywords: TIFF graphics standard print
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.180730.17735@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 18:07:30 GMT
References: <6534@drutx.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 15

In article <6534@drutx.ATT.COM>, wpc@druhi.ATT.COM (ChristmasWP) writes:
> Could someone email me a specification of the TIFF graphic standard?
> 
> I'm trying to dump scanner files (Canon ix-12) to an HP LJ-III printer
> (both are 300dpi) and most of the utilities I've found are going through
> some intermediate and unnecessary translations which impair the image.

The TIFF specification is available from SIMTEL by ftp.

I've had good luck printing such TIFFs using VUIMAGE.  If your original is
300 dpi, it should print 300 dpi unless you ask it to scale the picture.
The latest version I believe is 2.70.


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